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HomeKit ESP8266 HomeKit White LED Strip A standard white LED strip that Apple Home switches on and off through an ESP8266 and a relay, installed with Life Cycle Manager 2. Read more

HomeKit ESP8266 HomeKit Window Contact Sensor with a Hall Sensor A HomeKit window contact sensor: an A3144 Hall sensor, a magnet, an ESP8266 and a 3D-printed housing that sticks to the frame. A test setup with the circuit explained from the datasheet. Read more

HomeKit ESP8266 HomeKit Air Quality Sensor with an MQ135 A NodeMCU with an MQ135 gas sensor and a DHT22 as an air quality, temperature and humidity sensor in Apple Home, built as a test setup. Read more

Projects RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 4B A Raspberry Pi 4B as a retro game console with RetroPie, and where the files go on the SD card. Read more

Projects ESP8266 HomeKit SDK in Docker: Build Your Own Firmware Two Docker images with the ESP toolchain and ESP-Open-RTOS, to build ESP8266 HomeKit firmware on a Mac, from build to Apple Home. Read more

HomeKit ESP8266 HomeKit Garden Light EX The extended garden light: an outdoor fixture with a mains lamp on a relay, a NeoPixel strip for coloured light, and a 3D-printed housing for a motion sensor, on a board left over from the fountain project. Read more

HomeKit ESP8266 HomeKit Battery Status with an 18650 Cell A proof of concept: an ESP8266 that measures an 18650 cell through a voltage divider and reports a low battery to Apple Home. Read more