ESPHome has become one of my favorite tools for managing smart home devices. It gives me the ability to configure, update, ...

The best part is that setting up the ESP32 or ESP8266 is straightforward. Bluetooth devices have been part of daily life for years, yet integrating them into home automation has always been ...

Although you’ll need an Echo Show 8, 10, 15 or 21 to get access to Alexa Plus as part of the initial rollout, it will be available on all Echo devices with a few exceptions I’ll cover below.

The Netgotchi network security scanner is a simple, compact device based on an ESP8266 wireless microcontroller with a single goal: to defend your home network from intruders and potential bad actors.

Using the code from the old post didn’t work … anymore? What the heck? So much for rolling out another kind of battery-powered ESP8266 device. Time to dig into what goes on with the wifi connection ...

I have executed the standard setup for an ESP8266 device via the ESPHome integration in Home Assistant. Despite a successful configuration process, the ESP8266 device is experiencing intermittent ...

“The project involves using an Arduino IoT Cloud compatible device, such as an Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect or any ESP32/ESP8266 device, as a middleware between the IoT Cloud and OpenAI’s GPT-3 ...

At its core, it is just an ESP8266, a cheap simple Wi-Fi chip that is in tons of tech. If you have Wi-Fi light bulbs, you probably have several of these chips in your home right now. Devices like ...

Support for ESP8266 devices is already available, and was recently moved into the free Arduino Cloud tier. The addition of ESP32 boards, along with the wide range of Cloud-compatible Arduino ...