Espressif takes control of M5Stack đ
Espressif, famous manufacturer of ESP chipsets, used a lot in open-source automation, has taken control of M5Stack company.Espressif had already an important participation in M5Stack capital, and has now expanded it to take control of the company. M5Stack is famous...
LoRa: what is it ? what’s the use ?
LoRa or LoraWAN, perhaps you have already heard about it or never yet ? here is the opportunity to learn basics about that technology that looks simple but can achieve great things and bring a nice solution in home-automation (remote sensors without power, large...
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 AMXÂ 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 đ Since nearly 20 years now (first show of Bravia TVÂ 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:Â 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...
Abaninja: accounting done by amateurs !
After having used during a little while an other solution not finished too at that time (Bexio), we are now using since 3 years Abaninja but in fact quite similar speaking of bugs and missing features. Here is a list of basic missing features and permanent problems n...
Home-Assistant: home automation and supervisor đ
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...
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