Posts Tagged: smartthings

0Updating cheap SmartPlugs

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ by & filed under SmartHome & IoT. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

I have pre­vi­ously writ­ten about modi­fy­ing cheap £10 smart­plugs to run open source firm­ware. Now I have quite a num­ber of them I needed an effi­cient way to update them. In this art­icle I doc­u­ment how to do
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0Expanding smarthome on the cheap

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ by & filed under SmartHome & IoT. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

As I’ve writ­ten about before, I have begun to exper­i­ment with the world of smarthome devices, and cur­rently use a smartth­ings hub and a google home mini. So far these have just turned on lamps and oth­er “plugged in” devices via smart­plugs, but with more com­pat­ible devices at reas­on­able prices finally start­ing to appear I wanted to start doc­u­ment­ing more of what I’ve tried
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3Cheap WiFi SmartPlugs with SmartThings

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ by & filed under SmartHome & IoT. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

SmartTh­ings com­pat­ible smart plugs are annoy­ingly expens­ive — typ­ic­ally around £40. This is far too expens­ive to con­sider buy­ing many of. There are how­ever WiFi plugs avail­able online for around £10 that don’t offi­cially work with SmartTh­ings. Most of them are based on the ESP8266 chip which can be reflashed with new firm­ware that will work with SmartTh­ings. Below I doc­u­ment my tri­als and tribu­la­tions with hack­ing these plugs
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2Connect SmartThings to Windows PC’s and Kodi

ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਿਤ by & filed under Kodi, SmartHome & IoT. ਆਖਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ .

I have sev­er­al win­dows PCs in my house that run Kodi. I wanted to con­nect them to SmartTh­ings for a range of pur­poses. There are vari­ous things that can be done depend­ing on the func­tion­al­ity you want.
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