Espressif announced ESP8285 WiFi SoC was entering production last March 2020. The new processor is based on ESP8266, but the company added 1MB built-in flash to make the solution smaller, and more suitable to wearables such as smartwatches and activity trackers. What is ESP8285 ESP8285 = ESP8266 +1M Flash application …
In my previous blog I made a ESP8266 – HomeKit Fountain light. Now it’s time to expand this with some Garden lights. A few years ago I bought two garden lamps from the Ikea in an impulse purchase. I have never used these garden lamps and were lying on the …
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. We all want things to go back to normal quickly. But what most of us have probably not yet realized—yet will soon—is that things won’t go back …
Dear readers of my blog, hardly anyone can have missed that we are currently dealing with a pandemic regarding the Corona virus. Because everything is closed here in the Netherlands, including the schools, I want to spend the best possible time with my children. For now the measures taken by …
I have done a fresh installation. I am not in favor of updating an OS. When updating the OS, traces are always left behind. I also like that I have a completely clean system and I also like to implement it. And by doing this more often it keeps me …
As a week has passed a lot has happened. (HacK a.k.a. HomeACcessoryKid) maker of Life Cycle Manager has done a lot of work trying to solve the issue. Unfortunately until now there isn’t a solution, as we can read on his Git. OUTAGE caused by GitHub change of HTTP headers …
As of this weekend I encountered some trouble with LCM (Life Cycle Manager). After contacting the the maker (HacK a.k.a. HomeACcessoryKid) of Life Cycle Manager, it turns out there is very small issue but the consequences are big, it’s an issues that has to be solved! For whom that reeds …
Now that I made a few examples of the HomeKit accessories, It’s time for some in depth HomeKit Code Analysis. For this analysis I took the LED example from the HomeKit Demo library witch I used in my first blog here to demonstrate how it works. First I start with …
I need a remote that I can program and that will work on batteries for a long time. So I was thinking of using a ATTINY with a way that enables me to send the information over the air. And when it comes down to having inexpensive yet reliable 2-way …
I need a remote that I can program and that will work on batteries for a long time. So I was thinking of using a ATTINY with a way that enables me to send the information over the air. And when it comes down to having inexpensive yet reliable 2-way …
