Home Automation

Smart Home projects and automations

Kasa Smart Plug by TP-Link Power Consumption Mods

Modifying a Kasa Smart Plug by TP-Link Power to reduce its power consumption when being used to monitor a device's energy usage

25 October 2020 4 min read

Adding 10Gb Fibre to the home network

Everyone needs some fibre in their diet and we have added more to the home network using 10Gb Fibre to connect our computers and Synology network storage devices via a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN network switch

24 October 2020 9 min read

Amazon Echo Flex Teardown

Teardown of an Amazon Echo Flex smart plug which listens to your commands via the Alexa service and replies using a very tiny speaker

28 March 2020 20 min read

Amazon Echo Input Teardown

Teardown of the Amazon Echo Input and trying to extract the firmware

03 December 2019 7 min read

Echo Dot 3rd Gen Digging Deeper

Digging deeper into the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation smart speaker

10 August 2019 30 min read

Echo Dot 3rd Gen Smart speaker Teardown

Teardown of the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation Smart speaker

21 July 2019 5 min read

Solar Hot Water to 1-Wire Interface

Adding a 1-Wire Interface to our Solar Hot Water Controller to allow it to talk to our home server and data logger

30 May 2018 3 min read

Mosquitto MQTT and Home Assistant Data Logging

Using Mosquitto MQTT and Home Assistant Data to log sensor data for our home using different types of wired and wireless sensors

14 March 2018 4 min read

Gigabit Internet Gateway Network PC

Upgrade time for our home Linux server with a new low-power Gigabit Internet Gateway Network PC

16 December 2017 4 min read

tp-link LB130 Smart Wi-Fi LED Bulb Python Control

Controlling a TP-Link LB130 Smart Wi-Fi LED Bulb using Python on a Raspberry Pi.

30 August 2017 12 min read

Home Network Upgrade - 48 port switch

A big upgrade to our home network with a new 48 port switch and patch panel

22 August 2017 3 min read

Home Energy Solar Logger Update

More updates to our Home Energy Solar Logger

06 September 2016 2 min read

Gas Meter Hall Effect Sensor

Modifying a reed switch-based gas meter sensor to use a hall effect sensor to allow us to record gas usage

13 January 2016 4 min read

ESP8266 Mains Energy Monitor

Building a custom ESP8266-based Wi-Fi mains electric and gas monitoring system

01 January 2016 7 min read

Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen Hot Water Installation

Replacing our old dumb central heating controller with a Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen and Hot Water Installation

04 December 2015 8 min read

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