IoT

Tuya Bonda Smart Plugs

Bonda Tuya Smart Plug

It’s holiday season, we need to turn the lights on/off. The light sensor plug doesn’t seem to work accurately and we did waste a lot of energy so we bought some inexpensive Tuya Smart Plugs from Aliexpress. I ordered the 16A so it’s strong enough for all my LED lights and anything hooked up to it.

iOS 13.1.2 Shortcuts and Wemos D1 Mini Open/Close Garage

iOS 13.1.2 Shortcuts on XR

Thanks to iOS 13.1.2 on my iPhone XR, now I can open/close my garage using Siri when I leave or come home using a few dollars Wemos D1 mini, relay and wiring. I’ll have his done in details after verifying everything is working perfectly. Use . Read this needed.

How To Use Wemos D1 Mini With Arduino

Wemos

  Software got updated and the links got disappeared, I couldn’t do the Wemos D1 mini using the older version anymore. I had to read again, now I’m going to document what needs to be done to just re-install a new version to be able to compile and upload the sketch to the wemos to

Zmodo Mini WIFI Camera

Zmodo Mini Camera

We want some camera to check the garage door status when we’re away from home, we found the zmodo mini camera is quite good for the money. It doesn’t have microSD slot for local recording, we already got the for that. Wyze cam is a little more expensive. The setup wifi on mobile devices is

Wyze WIFI IP Surveillance Camera

Wyze Camera

Got the camera from Amazon for $26. There are others but this one can record events to local micro SD card. 2 ways radio works well. Very solid with internet. Doesn’t work with Echo Dot. Work with both Android and iOS. For a cheaper wifi camera that doesn’t have mircoSD card, also a good one.