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Treatlife SL10 RGB CCW ESP Transplant

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Treatlife SL10 RGB CCW Transplant By boilerboy165   The SL10 comes with a WB8P chip inside which cannot be flashed with Tasmota or ESPHome. In this guide, I will go over the steps on how to replace the MCU with an ESP8266 esp12 board. My bulb uses an SM2135E chip to control the colors on the bulb. Thankfully Tasmota can control the SM2135E. Tools Needed: ·          Soldering iron & solder ·          Wire cutters ·          Small side cutters ·          2 smaller flat blade screwdrivers or spudgers ·          Razor blade ·          Esp8266 12E ·          30 AWG and some larger 20-24 AWG wire Teardown: Let’s walk through the dismantling of the bulb. There are a few other guides out...

UniFi 6 LR Access Point Review - Wi-Fi 6

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  I recently swapped my #UniFi WiFi 5 AC LR access point for the WiFi 6 version.  I was going to wait for WiFi 6e but decided against it and was glad I did!  #WiFi6 #UniFi6 U6 LR Specs AX210 WiFi Client Upgrade ⚡Oculus Quest 2 VR (US) - https://amzn.to/3aGaosv in Canada - https://amzn.to/3ukaWvD in the UK - https://amzn.to/3k9Vfmd ⚡Buy Ubiquiti UniFi products on Amazon Amazon US - https://amzn.to/3qIzyfA Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3sfbKAb Amazon CA - https://amzn.to/3ukozer ⚡Notes for further testing and updates  U5 Laptop Speeds 0 walls - 431/325 (80mhz) U6 Laptop Speeds 0 walls - 630/837 (80mhz) U5 Pixel Speeds 4-5 walls - 20/0 to 1 U6 Pixel Speeds 4-5 walls - 77/38 Interesting the upload was always faster on the laptop vs download on the U6. The U6 added significantly more usable real world coverage on the 5ghz band. The impressive part was using a clean DFS 160mhz channel and being able to saturate the 1 gig ethernet uplink to the U6. I bet it could do more if i...

SONOFF L1 Lite LED Strip - Music Sync with Tasmota

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Purchase the Sonoff L1 Lite Usually most of the LED strips I've run into that do some sort of music sync have a chipset that isn't DIY friendly.  That quickly changes with the Sonoff L1 Lite LED Strip.  A few quick specs: 12 VDC RGB LEDs (no dedicated white channel) Length 5M (not waterproof) 30 LEDs/m And best of all ESP8285 Wi-Fi chipset To flash Tasmota on the controller it is pretty straight forward except for one small issue.  Typically you need 3V3, Ground, RX, TX and GPIO Zero to flash an ESP chipset.  They did break out every thing on some nice pads for us on the back except for one small piece, the GPIO zero pad.   Solder up your 4 connections on the back to 3V3, GND, RX and TX.  These will attach to your USB TTL adapter like normal, you'll need to reverse RX and TX of course, RX to TX and TX to RX.  Attach a small wire to Ground as we will need to manually hold this wire to a the Gpio0 pin on the ESP8285 while power is applied.  Be ...

What is Zigbee and Z-Wave? Smart Home 2021

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   What is Zigbee and Z-Wave?  Smart Home 2021 Confused by all of this #SmartHome stuff?  Don't invest in random stuff, join us for the #Zigbee Series where we break it all down for you.  Jump into the world of local control with Zigbee devices.  ⚡Zigbee USB Sticks🏒 CC2531 (Amazon US)  https://amzn.to/3oKeaEV CC2531 (Banggood)  https://www.banggood.com/custlink/KvvRSoCRBa CC2531 (Aliexpress)  https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Af3Iam CC2652RB  https://slae.sh/projects/cc2652/ CC2652R  https://www.tindie.com/products/electrolama/zzh-cc2652r-multiprotocol-rf-stick/ CC1352-P2  https://www.ti.com/store/ti/en/p/product/?p=LAUNCHXL-CC1352P-2 ⚡Zigbee Products Sonoff Motion -  https://amzn.to/3reBvjE Sonoff Temp -  https://amzn.to/3r8WdS2 Sonoff Bridge -  https://amzn.to/3oIDDP0 Sonoff Mini -  https://amzn.to/3cNN25J Aqara Zigbee Sensors -  https://amzn.to/3tiMHh0 Ecolink Door Sensors -  http://ebay.to/3oM...

What is Zigbee? Staring a Smart Home in 2021

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  What is Zigbee?  Smart Home 2021 Confused by all of this #SmartHome stuff?  Don't invest in random stuff, join us for the #Zigbee Series where we break it all down for you.  Jump into the world of local control with Zigbee devices.  ⚡Zigbee USB Sticks🏒 CC2531 (Amazon US) https://amzn.to/3oKeaEV CC2531 (Banggood) https://www.banggood.com/custlink/KvvRSoCRBa CC2531 (Aliexpress) https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Af3Iam CC2652RB https://slae.sh/projects/cc2652/ CC2652R https://www.tindie.com/products/electrolama/zzh-cc2652r-multiprotocol-rf-stick/ CC1352-P2 https://www.ti.com/store/ti/en/p/product/?p=LAUNCHXL-CC1352P-2 ⚡Zigbee Products Sonoff Motion - https://amzn.to/3reBvjE Sonoff Temp - https://amzn.to/3r8WdS2 Sonoff Bridge - https://amzn.to/3oIDDP0 Sonoff Mini - https://amzn.to/3cNN25J Aqara Zigbee Sensors - https://amzn.to/3tiMHh0 Ecolink Door Sensors - http://ebay.to/3oMUYpP XHS Door Sensors - http://ebay.to/3jbnIaN ⚡Home Automation Zigbee2MQTT - https://www...

Smarter Laundry Voice Notifications | Sonoff S31 & Home Assistant

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  Smarter Washer and Dryer Notifications for 2021. As with many things #HomeAssistant and #Tasmota, setup got much easier!  All point and click configurations. Extended Director's Cut of this video if you want a more in depth dive - https://youtu.be/Tjg4tioZzbs Sonoff S31 - https://amzn.to/3sRK2uF Direct from iTead - https://shrsl.com/2r10c Preflashed S31 - http://ebay.to/35ZCIDj Athom - http://bit.ly/3iNyEet USB TTL - https://amzn.to/2L2w5Zq Jumper Wires - https://amzn.to/2DlghNf Test Probes - https://amzn.to/2BRSR1C or https://amzn.to/2AIA2NU Use Text to Speech with Alexa - https://hasscasts.com/home-assistant-alexa-tts/ ⚡ Previous Videos DIY Electric Dryer Notifications - https://youtu.be/NbUJPZbyXo8   ESPHome Whole Home Power Monitoring - https://youtu.be/BOgy6QbfeZk ⚡ Products We Use/Recommend Amazon US - https://amzn.to/2YZNDeO Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/2TnG2R4 Amazon CA - https://amzn.to/2JWsNq5 ⚡ Be Social! ⚡ Discord Chat - https://discord.gg/bNtTF2v Websi...