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Review of the Argus Eco - Wire Free Solar Powered Camera.  Put it Anywhere!

Congrats to Mike S on his win of the giveaway on Discord/Facebook.  Be sure to read his review of the camera here -  Mike S's review of the Argus Eco (PDF file)

Argus Eco(US)
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For the folks using the awesome Martin Jerry SD-01 and Tessan/Acenx MJ-SD02 dimmers, I've updated the fork to 6.6.0.6.  There aren't any additional features except for what came with the rebase on the updated base of Tasmota.  If you do decided to update your dimmers you'll need to select the MJ-SD01 module again after the reboot since the module number changes with this version.  More info on setup/flashing to be found here.

Even though Tuya Convert seems to be getting more rare and rare each day, I updated the generic bin with wifi manager (AP mode) as default to 6.6.0.7 as well, this can be used for many other flashing applications too!  Download here.

The ShellyEM is an all in one power monitoring solution for monitoring two circuits up to 120A.



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Sample Home Assistant Sensor via MQTT

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "ShellyEM1 Watts"
    state_topic: "shellies/shellyem-B9E17C/emeter/0/power"
    qos: 0
    unit_of_measurement : "W"
    icon: mdi:flash-circle
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "ShellyEM1 Volts"
    state_topic: "shellies/shellyem-B9E17C/emeter/0/voltage"
    qos: 0
    unit_of_measurement : "V"
    icon: mdi:flash-circle
#    availability_topic: "shellies/shellyem-B9E17C/online"
#    payload_available: "Online"
#    payload_not_available: "Offline"

Easy to deploy and reliable sensors for automations on doors, cabinets, freezers, toilet seats (we know who!), etc, check out the Wyze Sense pack.  By popular demand after the live stream we are doing a quick and easy step by step setup with Home Assistant.  This was tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 (which runs pretty quick!) but you can install this on many device setup types, such as unRaid, docker, etc.

Wyze Sense Pack w/ Camera
Wyze Sense Pack Only

Raspberry Pi 4 Kit

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Wyze Component - https://github.com/kevinvincent/ha-wyzesense
HACS Install - https://custom-components.github.io/hacs/installation/manual/
DrZzs Install of HACS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTTCAvzpIU

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unRaid hidraw<x> Passthrough

This is for folks running separate docker containers and not using the Hassio Supervisor

Plug in the Waze USB receiver, log into the unRaid …

Tuya Convert got you down?  Still looking for some devices that don't require soldering to flash your Tasmota, ESPHome, etc open source firmware?  We are checking out a few devices that can be flashed with the open pin headers.  No soldering!  If you have any devices to add to the list be sure to comment down below.  They will get added along with pictures of the pin headers on this Blog post.  Let's build the list and make all of our devices ours with pure local control!

Solderless Devices

Zemismart - 1,2, or 3 Switch

They refer to them as gangs, but there are three models based on how many switches you want. They are clickie style switches and fit in a standard US 1 gang width box.  Remove the 4 screws on the back and you'll see the pins all right there.  IO0 is the GPIO 0 pin.





Sonoff iFan03

The button is GPIO0 - hold the button while applying power for a few seconds, just like the Sonoff Basic





Etekcity Switch 2 Way



Etekcity Switch 3 Way



Martin Jerry Switch 2 Way



Martin Jerry …

Finishing up the last bit of sensors and config on the Etekcity power monitoring plug.  No soldering required to flash the plug as they left us an open header to attach to.  Snuck in a little bit of the cool 3 way Martin Jerry switch.

Etekcity Plug
Martin Jerry 3 way Switch

2 & 6 Channel Monitoring Boards with ESPHome - https://circuitsetup.us/

Audio issues on the first piece, but we reset OBS to fix the issue!  Sorry guys/gals!

Tasmota Template for the Etekcity
(had issues with voltage readings dropping at random times)
{"NAME":"ETekNightLight","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,37,21,0,0,132,133,17,130,52],"FLAG":1,"BASE":45}

Work in progress Etekcity Plug Config

substitutions:
  plug_name: etekpower
  # Higher value gives lower watt readout
  current_res: "0.00095"
  # Lower value gives lower voltage readout
  voltage_div: "2040"

esphome:
  name: ${plug_name}
  platform: ESP8266
  board: esp8285

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  p…