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How can Philips Hue serial number be used if it's not stored in the bulb?
To "find" a bulb in Philips Hue environment, it is possible to search in the Hue app by serial number. The serial number is written on the bulb itself. A common question on the internet is how to get that serial number without physical access to the…
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SX1278 LORA TX Antenna Frequency Matching
During a range testing for Ra-02 Ai SX1278 LORA, I noticed a strange behavior. Following are the settings that I used. Tested distance is 1200m line of sight. We tested the setup for different antenna combinations. All antennas are same type and…
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Alexa is trying to play a song when i ask for "time" (zeit)
I'm from Switzerland and I speak (Swiss)German. I often ask for the time "Alexa Zeit". Until now that worked perfectly.
Since a few days there's a song called "Zeit" on Spotify and now when I say the magic words, Alexa plays that song instead of…
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Alexa - Cancel regular weather notifications without the app
My sister who is registered blind, relies on her Amazon echo for many things. Recently she asked for a weather forecast and Alexa asked if she would like a regular weather update. She said yes but was not asked for when. She now receives a…
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how can I find Java Card products?
I am searching for hardware to help me get started with passive NFC Java Card 3.2 technology.
I can't find badges or tags or any kind of NFC product that advertises running Java Card 3.2.
I couldn't find anything on oracle.com, but is there an…
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Can Tasmota be made to send regular telementry over HTTPS on an ESP32 board?
I typically use Tasmota to send MQTT messages for (for example) temperature sensors to a host on my LAN - and I then have something listening to MQTT and processing the messages. I now need to monitor something that is not attached to my LAN, and I…
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Getting Bluetooth 5.4 to work on HAOS (Home Assistant OS)
I'd like to use Bluetooth in my Smart Home setup, which is based on a Home Assistant green bridge and runs the latest HAOS (2024.3.1). According to https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases, this is running a 6.6.20 Linux…
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How to Achieve Max Speed Transactions ( Transfers ) between Lora Packet Forwarder to Remote Server
I have a Lorawan devices that works as witnesser and beaconer.
Simply it gets the Signal-Data from other same type of Lorawan devices.
There is a Packet Forwarder software on that device OS and it gets and process that Signal-Data.
This Packet…
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Using LoRa-RSSI to Estimate Distance in Outdoor Setting
Thanks here, I've tried to optimize the LoRa setup to ensure accurate or acceptable RSSI measurements and for distance estimation between multiple nodes and a master in an outdoor environment using those WiFi LoRa 32 V3 modules that operate within…
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Mixing physical wall switches with IoT HA controls
I have just started my journey into IoT / Smart Home and I currently run a Home Assistant (HA) green with Zigbee/Matter extension.
One of my devices is a classical ceiling light array (5 bulbs), for which I installed an IKEA Tradfri, which again are…
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Are there any smart plugs using home powerlines or ethernet instead of WiFi?
I'm using power lines at home and trying to avoid using WiFi as much as possible. And many powerline adapters to ethernet include a plug. Moreover, many suppliers of powerlines also offer smart switches in their catalog. However, I don't find any…
Emili
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How to retrieve the Identity Resolving Key (IRK) of a bluetooth device on a windows PC
I'm trying to retrieve the IRK of a BLE device to use with Home Assistant's "Private BLE Device" integration, but I don't know where to find it.
I've tried looking in the Device Manager and tried a Python script to retrieve it but neither worked. Is…
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SSH into Home Assistant instance from anywhere
So I have Home Assistant running on an RPi-4. I have the instance running locally but I also have the cloud service through Nabo Casa. I have a sub-domain through my domain from google domain that I can access the home assistant UI through the…
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Car fuel level sensor remotely monitoring
Car fuel level sensor
Car fuel level monitoring is implemented and viewed on the dashboard with assistance of fuel level sensor inside the Automobile.
Is it possible to remotely monitor a running automobile's fuel level with assistance of Smartphone…
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Where is the partition table on ESP8285 (Tasmota)?
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I'd like to replace the Tasmota firmware of a WiFi Socket with my own firwmare.
The TTL port of the ESP8285H16 (=ESP8266 + 2MB flash) is not accessible without braking the case and I need to re-flash a bunch of devices, so I have to…
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