WeLock sent me the Touch41 smart door lock for a test. I installed it in our front door and can now tell you about it first-hand.
Smart home
Configure a Tasmota WiFi Smart Meter
Hichi was not idle and developed a WiFi smart meter (reading head) with an ESP32 and Tasmota. Here I show you how to configure it.
Make electricity meters smart for 25 euros
To read our electricity meter, it doesn’t take much. Above all, it does not need expensive equipment. Who wants to buy „professional“ adapters for the electric meter, gets easily a hysterical laughing fit, because they call up full three-digit buzzers. I cannot financially represent this in front of myself, so a DIY solution comes to use. But is it any good?
Make water meter smart for 20 euros
I would like to monitor our water consumption, also to be warned in time enough in case of leakage. But… our water meter is stupid! It doesn’t even have a magnet for a reed relay or a holder for a light barrier.
You can buy smart water meters for hundreds of Euros and have the official water meter installed in the back for hundreds of Euros again. Fortunately, there are resourceful tinkerers and geniuses interested in the common good (from my point of view) who have coded something together. So let’s make the water meter smart.