A Powerful Combination For Driving HVAC Efficiency : Polyaire AirTouch 5 + SMA Energy Meter + Amazon Alexa + Door Sensors + Home Assistant

Recently after a some deliberation in living with a undersized and under performing cooling system for 15 years, my family decided to replace our multi zone gas ducted heating and evaportative cooling system with a Fujitsu R2 High Static Cooling Solution (16.5 KW Cool / 20.5KW heating). As usual lets start with a video to … Read more

Flashing Tasmota on a Sonoff Basic R4 & Configuring for Home Assistant

In October of 2023 Itead released their latest Sonoff Basic appliance module the Basic R4. It is now based off an ESP32 chip, versus the ESP82xx of prior models and provides increased load capabilities at 2400w. This appliance module is cheap and is perfect for attaching to a desk lamp, inline in a power board … Read more

Using Flying Probes for Surface Mount PCB Flashing Of ESP32 & Beyond.

The right tool for the job can make any job enjoyable. I often get sense if happiness using quality tools that make a job easy and painfree. Tools change, I am not just talking in the physical world. Take example my world, cloud computing, look at cloud networking, how we architect connections in the cloud … Read more