Smart Home DIY

Pinout I/O hardware

Terminal pinout I/O of machinon

Video demo of Smart Home

I would love to take credit for this fantastic work, however the installation below is from one of the first supporters of machinon....

46 long term Wired Connections in a miniBeMS Smart Building

Smart devices are strongly associated with wireless communication, and a wired smart building may seem like a contradictory concept....

What can you do with machinon?

Now that the first units are arriving to their new owners, I'm starting to get asked what things can do machinon, in particular with...

How to use the LCD Display

The machinon has a built-in Graphics LCD, what for? Good question, keep reading... When I was designing the specifications of machinon...

Autonomous TTS with Alexa

Here is how I got Alexa to announce information (text to speech) to me without asking her. You may be thinking why having Alexa (Amazon...

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Adding value to a Smart Home

These are my views on wireless vs wired, open vs close, cloud vs local... based on community conversations I had, it is a bit long, but...

Roller blinds with machinon & domoticz

Playing with Node-Red integration. Below is a quick test done with Node-Red, the interesting thing is that the digital outputs are...