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Adding Dimming to the Matter Light Switch – pt2
In Part 1, I managed to add support for the Level Control Step Command to the esp-matter light_switch example. Whilst it worked, it didn’t quite work as expected, so in this post I show how I finally figured it out. The problem was that the BUTTON_LONG_PRESS_HOLD events were being generated… Read ⇢
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Controlling a real Matter Smart Bulb with a Raspberry Pi.
In this post I show how to pair the Matter chip-tool with a real, commercial Smart Bulb Read ⇢
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Adding Dimming to the Matter Light Switch – pt1
In this post I dive into the Matter Dimmer Switch and try to add support to the example Light Switch! Read ⇢
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The ESP-Matter Light Switch Example and iOS
In this post, I’m going to see how the ESP Matter Light Switch example works, or doesn’t work, with iOS. By the end of this post, I hope to have demonstrated the Matter Light Switch. I’ll be using Matter-over-Thread and Matter-over-WiFi. I will use an ESP32-H2 for the Thread device… Read ⇢
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3rd Revision of my PCB and still a lot to learn!
I received the 3rd revision of my Zigbee PCBs from Aisler today and unfortunately, there are still small issues. Revision 3 of the these boards saw me switch from SMD to through-hole. Working with surface mounted components seemed like a great idea, but without the proper tools, I wasn’t equipped… Read ⇢
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Shelly “Detached Mode” Failsafe
In my latest YouTube video, I take a look at my Shelly 1 Failsafe. You can find all the details here https://github.com/tomasmcguinness/shelly-detached-mode-python-ha-watchdog Read ⇢
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The Matter chip-tool doesn’t work on Windows so I use a Raspberry Pi instead!
I wanted to be able to run the Matter chip-tool on Windows. Mostly so I could learn about commissioning and binding. As I was starting to tinker with Matter devices like Light Switches, I needed the chip-tool. This is because some devices need “binding”, which I can’t do in Home… Read ⇢
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Further attempts at decoding an FSK signal
Back to my SDR again. I pick up from where I left off. After moving my antenna around and listening to pilots landing at Birmingham, I decided to give my signal another go. I went back to SDR++ and immediately noticed something very strange! The same pulse, every second, was… Read ⇢
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Sending and decoding a 433MHz signal with an ESP32, a CC1101 and Universal Radio Hacker
In this blog post, I write about how my attempts to send and decode a binary message over 433MHz Read ⇢
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