home automation

Posted in the B4J forum: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/athom-pre-flashed-tasmota-infrared-remote-controller-with-b4x-home-automation.158628/

I got my mitts on this IR remote controller gadget: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005772315510.html What's unusual about this one, is that it comes pre-flashed with Tasmota, which makes it extremely simple to control it with your software, without having to tinker with the hardware...

Tested with both B4A and B4J - see https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/controlling-sonoff-s20-smart-power-plugs-b4x-home-automation.125768/

Hi gang, Here's how I got the Sonoff S20 to work with B4X. As the standard firmware doesn't come with an API and I wasn't successful trying to translate pySONOFF to B4X, I went down another path which was more than worth the effort of looking things up and ordering a bit of additional low-cost...

Not exactly a tutorial or Android-only, but a hint to the community for those who like playing with home automation stuff, and possibly for others as well. I happened across this very nice device (IMHO): https://www.tindie.com/products/nicethings/hugo-esp8266-4-button-wifi-remote/ and couldn't...

Introduction: The Raspbee (or Conbee, which is the USB version - the information here will only refer to the Raspbee) from Dresden Elektronik (https://shop.dresden-elektronik.de/raspbee.html, also available elsewhere, e.g. on Amazon) is a Zigbee (https://www.zigbee.org/) radio board for the...

This is a wrapper for RCSwitch library. https://github.com/sui77/rc-switch Receive from or operate 433/315 MHz remote radio controlled devices. Tested with Uno, Mega and Wemos D1. Installation steps: Go to Arduino Select Sketch/Include Library/Manage Libraries In Library manager, search...