Raspberry Pi 4 – Power & Temperature at Idle
In my previous post, I examined how to attempt to cool the hot running Raspberry Pi 4. Here I wanted to quickly touch on why the Raspberry Pi 4 runs so hot and if the upcoming new USB 3 host Read More …
Category: Home Automation
Cooling options for the hot Raspberry Pi 4
As previously covered the latest Raspberry Pi 4 is running too hot, such that it can’t even be used in the official Raspberry Pi 4 case without hitting thermal throttling, even when idle. There is some updated USB 3.0 firmware Read More …
Raspberry Pi 4 Hot new release – Too hot to use enclosed
This post is now Part 1 of a series, covering the cooling for the Pi4, you may also want to read: Part 2 – Cooling options for the hot Raspberry Pi 4 Part 3 – Raspberry Pi 4 – Power Read More …
Raspberry Pi PoE HAT – Official Modified Version
As I covered in depth in my previous post Raspberry Pi Official PoE-HAT – FAIL! If you want to use the USB Ports (last updated: 27 October 2018) the initial release of the PoE HAT was rather problematic leading to the Read More …
Node-RED Support for Pimoroni Automation-HAT/pHAT
I’ve recently been looking at how to simplify how non-programmers can start to create home automation solutions and stumbled across Node-RED, something which provides some elements of flow-gramming that was available from Octoblu, (which looks to have fallen out of Read More …
Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 3 – Installation)
Installation of my multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting project is now complete. Taking the low cost approach has had some drawbacks, but I’m pleased with the overall result. If you didn’t read my previous posts (part 1, part 2a and part 2b) the Read More …
Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 2b – WiFi LED Controller Selection)
This post is a follow up from Part 1 of my series of posts covering the installation of a multi-zone WiFi Controlled LED lighting system. In the previous post I explained by decision to use Magic Home based lighting controllers Read More …
Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 2a – LED Light Strip Diffusers)
Following on from Part 1 of this series on creating a multi-zone LED lighting system, I wanted to share an update on a couple of areas that I couldn’t completely cover due to awaiting delivery of the components. In this Read More …
Multi-zone WiFi LED Lighting (Part 1 – Planning)
I’m starting on a project to add WiFi Controlled LED perimeter strip lights to a bedroom. I thought I’d capture this project in a series of posts, starting first with the decisions around what to use for this project. Whilst Read More …
Heterogeneous Home Automation with Home-Assistant
The rate of change in internet connected devices continues to accelerate, with new devices, platforms and “things” appearing all the time. Home Automation has been an area I’ve dabbled in on and off over the past few years, recently I’ve Read More …