Controlling a relay from Home Assistant

By seb, in Internet of Things, february 16,2025.

Some time ago, we looked at how to build a smart extension cord and how to use it to monitor the consumption of an electrical appliance with Home Assistant. We're going to enhance this Home Assistant integration by adding the ability to switch this extension cord from Home Assistant.

New! Yocto-WatchdogDC & Yocto-4-20mA-rx USB-C

By martinm, in New stuff, february 06,2025.

Slowly but surely, Yoctopuce is making progress in its transition to modules with USB-C connectivity in place of the Micro-B connectors that seem to be slowly disappearing from everyday life. This week, it's the turn of the Yocto-WatchdogDC and Yocto-4-20mA-Rx modules.

Improved humidity-sensitive ventilation

By mvuilleu, in Internet of Things and Measures, february 03,2025.

A few weeks ago, we showed you how to monitor the operation of humidity-sensitive ventilation (type B) with Home Assistant. We left off with the observation that, in some cases, the mechanical humidity-sensitive setting is not ideal. So let's take a look at how a little home automation, used wisely, can improve the system's energy performance.

A connected dry box

By seb, in DIY, january 23,2025.

This week, we're going to do a simple DIY project that will be of interest to anyone involved in 3D printing. We're going to make a box for storing filaments while monitoring humidity.

Timing, RFID, and radio-controlled cars

By martinm, in DIY, january 17,2025.

In addition to reading and writing tags, the Yocto-RFID-15693 module API allows you to program a callback that is called every time a tag enters or leaves the antenna field. And these callbacks are time-stamped. It's only a short step from there to using this feature to build a stop-watch application, a step we didn't hesitate to take.