To make my life easier and program a lot of Sonoff basic switches, I made small jigs to help me with properly aligning the pins from the various USB to Serial adapters that I have. Since all of these ...

First, take a look inside the device: In principle, the Sonoff Basic is a single-relay unit to be used as retrofit, based on the ESP8266 chip, a very popular and inexpensive Wi-Fi solution. However, ...

Generally speaking, home automation isn’t as cheap or as easy as most people would like. There are too many incompatible protocols, and more often than not, getting everything talking requires you to ...