Reggiana: disappointing product quality and terrible customer service !
We have completed a large renovation project in 2022 for one of our residential customers (change all incandescent lights installed around 20 years ago by LED). As part of that project, we have been in touch with multiple high-end light manufacturers (or supposed to...
AMX Muse: an ersatz of Hone-Assistant !
After more than ten years without any update in term of controllers, giving impression that AMX is going to close down, at least a new generation of controllers is announced, but what a disappointment !! Last major upgrade for AMX has been more than 20 years ago now...
Sony Bravia: end of golden time !!
One more manufacturer that has decided to stop producing products working properly 🙁 Since nearly 20 years now (first show of Bravia TV on market in 2005), we used with lot of success Sony Bravia TV for needs of our customers. Indeed, Sony offered good displays at...
LODE: audio players never successful !
To avoid any other person to get caught, it's important to make public the quality of LODE audio players. Nearly 2 years ago now, their audio streamers looked very promising. All the more, manufacturer offered free access at drivers for all main automation systems...
Home-Assistant: home automation and supervisor 😉
Home-Assistant, one of the most efficient open-source solution for home-automation, and that just passed its 10 birthday, is lot more than "just" home-automation tool. Traditional/historical home-automation systems, like AMX, Crestron or equivalent, are designed...
Home-Assistant and Serial Control (RS-232/422/485): How to do it ?
Even if it becomes less and less common years after years, there are still some devices in audiovisual pro that are controlable through serial port (RS-232, 422, 485). It allows very efficient and precise control of devices, and also if needed feedback of devices for...
When Open-Source makes some shit ! (cf Mozilla and Canonical/Ubuntu)
Very long time user of Linux on all my computers (servers included, well at least since Linux is usable around 1992/1993), I have to confess that last evolutions of one of the most famous distributions: Ubuntu looks to me quite far of Linux spirit and move more and...
Home-Assistant (HA) and The Things Network (V3): how to do ?
You have some sensors or other devices connected through Lora at open network TTN (The Things Network, and the commercial version: The Things Stack) and you wish to get all these datas into Home-Assistant, here is how to do it. Two solutions are avalaible: one quite...
NSPanel (Sonoff): a promising wall-mount touch-panel !
Sonoff, very large manufacturer of "geekable" products for home-automation, now announces release soon of a wall-mounted 3.5" touch-panel 😉 After having mainly released some interface boxes, or control boxes, Sonoff extends its portfolio with a touch-panel (at least...
New Internet hosting offers for 2020 !
2020 is the year of new hosting offers, after quite a while with existing ones. You are more and more customers taking great benefit of NextCloud system (similar to Google services but on your own hosting with full control of data and no one "using" your datas for...
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