Adding and tracking the state of 433 MHz Devices via Sonoff RF BridgeR2 and ESPHome in Home Assistant

Adding and tracking the state of 433 MHz Devices via Sonoff RF BridgeR2 and ESPHome in Home Assistant

Welcome to the second part of enhancing our smart home with 433 MHz devices. We’ll delve into adding and tracking the state of these devices via your Sonoff RF BridgeR2, which you’ve already successfully integrated into Home Assistant, as discussed in our previous article. With the bridge in place, we’re poised to explore the next…

How to flash the Sonoff RF BridgeR2 with ESPHome and integrate it into Home Assistant

How to flash the Sonoff RF BridgeR2 with ESPHome and integrate it into Home Assistant

Introduction Bridging the gap between legacy devices and cutting-edge technology is a fascinating endeavour. If you’ve ever wanted to integrate your 433 MHz remote-controlled devices into your smart home ecosystem using the Sonoff RF BridgeR2, you’re in the right place. In this article, I’ll guide you through the process of flashing the Sonoff RF BridgeR2…

Home Assistant & ESPhome: Easy Electricity Meter Integration

Home Assistant & ESPhome: Easy Electricity Meter Integration

You can integrate your electricity meter into home assistant easily and cheaply using ESPhome and some cheap sensors. Here is how I added my parent’s solar panel electricity meter to home assistant. My parents installed solar panels onto their home nearly 15 years ago. Until very recently they had an old ferraris meter in their…

DAB — Lesson 2!

DAB — Lesson 2!

I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time continuing to hone my artistic drawing skills with Drawabox. I’ve almost completed lesson two, and here’s my results thus far: Thinking in 3D The task here was to draw arrows and forms that appear to exist in a 3D space on a 2D surface. Texture and…

Boxes

Boxes

I’ve been giving learning how to draw an earnest new attempt. Currently, I’m on box 210 of 250 boxes of the drawabox 250 box challenge. It’s mind-numbingly hard sometimes to push through. Someone compared it to “artistic push-ups”. And that’s what it feels like. I’ve been doing this for over a month now, about 5–10…

Houseplants

Houseplants

I avoided having any kind of houseplants for the longest time. They seemed like an unnecessary extra thing to take care of and put work into. I don’t quite remember when it started or where I heard about it first, but I at some point read an article about NASA’s Clean Air study. It started…