Idea: If there is smoke, smoke alarm detects it ESP8266 detects this digital signal from smoke detector, connects to WiFi and sends data to a MQTT server Esp8266 turns itself OFF Implementation: Try to find where on the smoke detector is the 3.3V digital signal when it detects smoke Lets look at Kiddie RF-SM-DC Third […]
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Wouldn’t it be nice to know if your dog’s water bowl is empty? Let us build a sensor that measures the water level every 5 minutes. This value is sent to MQTT server and Home Assistant automation takes care of the rest. This sensor connects to MQTT and Home Assistant. See dogsensor.yaml for adding this
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Building electronics is one of my hobbies and I have in the recent year developed this skill to a point that I can help inspire others to make these things that make our day to day activities easier. Activities as simple as turning on and off lights using the internet (or using voice via siri/alexa/google
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