Google Home Mini – Black Friday Sale £34! – unboxing
It's Black Friday and an email dropped in from Google tempting me into a £34 purchase! As it happened, Google paid me for my...
$20 Automated Staircase RGB LED Lighting: HARDWARE #part2
Where do I even start? I just finished the build and the head is still full of all the things I tried and it...
Alexa Routines are better than Google Assistant shortcuts
Chances are, that you have an access to at least one personal assistant. Whether it's a Google Assistant on your phone or Amazon Echo...
$20 Automated Staircase RGB LED Lighting: DESIGN #part1
My staircase has claimed a broken toe some time ago. Fortunately, it wasn't my toe, but I feel for the poor fella. The toe...
Creating Amazon Dash Yeelight remote
When I have seen perfectly referenced API that comes with Yeelight Smart bulbs I knew it's gonna be fun! It took me some time...
Use Amazon Dash as smart light remote
I have talked about the Tasker and Yeelight integration before. The recent app update has broken few things. I have submitted my feedback to...
Tasker and Yeelight – turn your lights on upon arrival
I talked about emulating sunsets and sunrises with Yeelight before, this time around I want to make sure I will live long enough to...
Emulating sunsets and sunrises with Tasker and Yeelight
It's getting darker and gloomier here in the northern hemisphere, especially in the UK where the natural light is out past 6 pm. Since...
Getting Alexa to talk
Encouraged by my recent 'successes' with Amazon Echo and NodeRED, I came up with few more scenarios that I would find rather useful. Getting...
Alexa, wake up my computer (Tasker too!)
It's not the first time I deal with this project, and oh boy, each time it does change quite a bit. How is this...
NodeRED for beginners
NodeRED for beginners: 7. Tips & Tricks
That's the last post of this series with a couple of tips and tricks you might find handy while building your own flows. These...
NodeRED for beginners: 6. Function node
The Function Node is one of the most useful nodes in NodeRED. It's a javascript editor which doesn't do much unless you tell it...
NodeRED for beginners: 5. Connectivity
I explained how to process the data in the last tutorial, its time to learn how to send the data to NodeRED and how...
NodeRED for beginners: 4. Data Processing
If you made your first flow already, you know that data is passed between each node. If you want to see this in a simplified example,...
NodeRED for beginners: 3. Your First Flow
We talked about why you should get NodeRED in the first place, and how to get started with NodeRED, now it's time for your...