HomeAssistant – Bluetooth (DIY Your BTHome Bluetooth Sensor)

HomeAssistant - Bluetooth (DIY Your BTHome Bluetooth Sensor)

Issues with Bluetooth Devices: Currently, most Bluetooth devices are designed to work with smartphone applications and broadcast their data in proprietary formats. However, using these Bluetooth devices in your HomeAssistant home automation platform requires support for each proprietary format, making it difficult to use!Problems Addressed by BTHome: A set of open, standardized BLE communication protocol … Read more

Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Old Phone into a Home Surveillance System, Server, or Gaming Console

Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Old Phone into a Home Surveillance System, Server, or Gaming Console

What can you do with an old phone gathering dust in your drawer besides turning it into a planter? The coolest digital eco-friendly project of 2025 is to transform it into a home security guard, personal cloud storage, retro gaming console, or even the brain of a smart home! With zero cost, low barriers, and … Read more

Telink Microelectronics Releases Latest Bluetooth Low Energy Chip SDK Supporting Apple HomeKit, Providing a Single-Chip Solution with Built-in Security Key Authentication for Smart Home Devices

Telink Microelectronics Releases Latest Bluetooth Low Energy Chip SDK Supporting Apple HomeKit, Providing a Single-Chip Solution with Built-in Security Key Authentication for Smart Home Devices

The above video demonstrates the interaction of a bulb with Siri voice commands. This demo is based on Telink’s SDK that supports Apple HomeKit. Shanghai, March 10, 2017 – Telink Microelectronics is a developer of highly integrated low-power RF and mixed-signal system-on-chip solutions dedicated to Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Recently, it released the latest … Read more

Zigbee/Z-Wave/WiFi Tremble Together! Three Major Advantages of the Matter Protocol Disrupt Industry Standards

Zigbee/Z-Wave/WiFi Tremble Together! Three Major Advantages of the Matter Protocol Disrupt Industry Standards

The Matter protocol is the ultimate next-generation smart home protocol. But how does it compare to other protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, and WiFi? What advantages and disadvantages does it bring? Let’s explore in this article: Smart home protocols refer to the guidelines and regulations for transmitting information between internet-connected appliances and devices. Although some protocols … Read more

Avoid Misunderstandings: Key Terms to Understand When Customizing Smart Home Solutions

Click ↑↑↑ the blue text to follow us In the pursuit of a high-quality lifestyle, customizing a complete smart home has become a choice for many when renovating their new homes. When customizing a complete smart home, some businesses require consumers to pay a certain amount as a deposit when signing the contract. If a … Read more

Principles and Applications of Microcontrollers

Principles and Applications of Microcontrollers

A microcontroller (MCU) is a highly integrated, powerful microcomputer widely used in embedded systems, smart homes, industrial control, automotive electronics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As an important hardware platform, microcontrollers are characterized by their compact size, low power consumption, high efficiency, and low cost. This article will introduce the basic principles, structural features, … Read more

Smart Home Privacy Exposed? CUHK and Others Use LSTM to Tackle IoT Security Settings

Smart Home Privacy Exposed? CUHK and Others Use LSTM to Tackle IoT Security Settings

Original by Machine Heart Author: Lu Xinfeng Editor: Joni In August of this year, Professor Zhang Kehua’s research group at the Chinese University of Hong Kong published a paper on arXiv, showcasing their research on the privacy of smart homes. The authors attempted to use an LSTM model to predict active devices in smart homes. … Read more

Avoid Misunderstandings: Key Terms to Understand When Customizing Smart Home Solutions

Avoid Misunderstandings: Key Terms to Understand When Customizing Smart Home Solutions

Click aboveBeijing Law Networkto get official information from the Beijing CourtOfficial News In the pursuit of a high-quality lifestyle, customizing a complete smart home has become a choice for many when renovating their new homes. When customizing a complete smart home, some businesses require consumers to pay a certain amount as a deposit when signing … Read more

Market Development Scale and Future Prospects of the ZigBee Wireless Sensor Industry for Whole House Intelligence in China

Market Development Scale and Future Prospects of the ZigBee Wireless Sensor Industry for Whole House Intelligence in China

Overview of the Whole House Intelligent ZigBee Sensor Industry ZigBee, as a wireless network protocol, focuses on low-speed, short-distance data transmission. Its underlying architecture is strictly constructed according to the media access layer and physical layer defined in the IEEE802.15.4 standard. As a near-field wireless communication technology that has emerged in recent years, ZigBee technology … Read more

PyZigbee: A Python Library for the Zigbee Protocol Stack!

PyZigbee: A Python Library for the Zigbee Protocol Stack!

MarkDown # Getting Started with PyZigbee: Using Python to Control Smart Home Communication Protocols Hello everyone! Today we are going to explore a particularly cool Python library—PyZigbee. This library allows us to easily control Zigbee devices with Python, creating our own smart home system. Even if you are a beginner in Python, following this article … Read more