So you heard all of the hype about Tasmota in the smart home community? You want to get in on the action but don’t quite know where to start? Well you are in luck, because you have landed in the right place! Tasmota is a very clever little bit of software that runs on smart…
Tasmota Auto Discovery In Home Assistant (Easy Step-By-Step)
If you have landed here in this little corner of the internet, I am going to assume you already know what Tasmota is and what the benefits are to running Tasmota on your devices and keeping your smart home cloud-free. If you haven’t flashed your device with Tasmota yet, check out the tutorials on flashing…
How To Flash ESP devices with Tasmota Using Raspberry Pi
This tutorial will cover all of the steps necessary to flash an ESP device with ESPTool using a Raspberry Pi. The device I shall be flashing is a MagicHome RGB LED controller. It is a ubiquitous design that comes in several flavours, usually branded as Arilux. However this tutorial can easily be adapted to work…
How To Flash Tasmota With Mac/Linux Terminal: Wemos D1 Mini
The Wemos D1 Mini is an incredible little device and you can pick one up for less than the cost of a beer. There is a wealth of documentation online and it is very easy configure. Best of all it has a USB port so it is very easy to flash. If you want to…
How To Install Home Assistant On Ubuntu
So why would you want to run Home Assistant on a full blown Linux distro rather than just a Raspberry Pi? I recently migrated my Home Assistant setup over to Ubuntu for a couple of reasons and i’ll explain why. Why use linux? Requirements Prerequisites Update Linux Install Docker Install Hass.io and Home Assistant Configure…
How To Install Raspbian To SD Card Using Etcher
There are already some good tutorials that explain to how do a fresh install of Raspbian. I wanted to include one to support my other articles but thought I would sprinkle in some additional pointers to help you along the way. Requirements Download Raspbian Download Etcher Installing Raspbian Access the Pi with SSH Find the…
How To Easily Flash Tuya Devices Over The Air Using Linux
Hello Smart Home tek lover! If you have landed here in this little corner of the internet, I will assume you already know what Tasmota is and why it is a great idea to get your devices out of the cloud. In this particular guide I aim to show you the quick and easy way…
