Since my air fryer notification I’ve bought 2 more Esp32 Dev boards from The Greal Mall of China- AliExpress. A couple days later I’d read about MMwave sensors and purchased a couple of those too....
I’ve been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I’ve seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....
Learning to solder is incredibly helpful with getting your esphome devices off the desk and into real-world use.
Don’t cheap out on the iron, though. Hakko and Weller are the two brands I’m familiar with and “everyone” seem to trust. You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars, but the quality gap between $30 and $60 is very obvious.
This is one of those instances where the idea of “a poor craftsman blames his tools” falls apart. I was using a crappy non-adjustable pen and could never achieve good, reliable results despite having proper technique. Then I got a decent Weller adjustable unit, and suddenly everything was “perfect”.
If you’re looking for additional toys, a 3D printer is insanely useful for creating bespoke cases for your projects ;)
I fell into serious FOMO b/c of some friends joking around about the owl harassing them and then getting into daily xp competitions… so I joined and tried Klingon.
It is very not good. The sentences it builds for learning are…weird at best, and the audio was inconsistent. Maybe it’s my learning style conflicting with how Duo does things, but… I hated it.
Recently, the lights in my office have been becoming randomly unresponsive, with no change to the setup/environment. They’re the only zigbee devices in the mesh that behave this way, and they’re also the closest to the gateway....
I did channel switching a while ago, and nothing has changed in that area.
There’s a possible bug in the latest Z2M release, which lines up with when my troubles started. Sounds like a fix is in the works, so hopefully that will resolve things.
I'm still having fun with esphome
Since my air fryer notification I’ve bought 2 more Esp32 Dev boards from The Greal Mall of China- AliExpress. A couple days later I’d read about MMwave sensors and purchased a couple of those too....
With the recent Open Home Foundation announcement I decided to finally buy some ESP32 chips. They're arriving today, what can I do with them?
I’ve been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I’ve seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....
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Zigbee bulbs randomly not reacting to commands
Recently, the lights in my office have been becoming randomly unresponsive, with no change to the setup/environment. They’re the only zigbee devices in the mesh that behave this way, and they’re also the closest to the gateway....