A better garage door opener

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One of the devices that I was particularly proud of was my voice and Home Assistant controlled garage door opener. I took a z-wave dry contact switch and wired it to a spare key-chain door remote and it worked amazingly well. I connected a z-wave door sensor and wrote someContinue Reading

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Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor Just as the heading suggests, this is about a capacitive soil moisture sensor. Initially, I was pretty happy with the result of the Plant soil moisture sensor that I recently posted. However, I quickly ran into an issue. The sensor module corroded within a week renderingContinue Reading