October 2021 - Kiril Peyanski's Blog

Kiril Peyanski holding SwitchBot Motion Sensor and SwitchBot contact sensor with home assistant switchbot esp32 mqtt label and d1 Mini ESP32 picture aside.

Home Assistant Smart Home

Home Assistant SwitchBot MQTT integration using D1 mini ESP32 | SwitchBot Motion Sensor & SwitchBot Contact Sensor

Is Home Assistant SwitchBot MQTT integration possible? SwitchBot offers a battery powered Motion Sensor and Contact sensors that are working perfectly fine if you also have a SwitchBot Hub Mini. What if you want to go local and you want to integrate the SwitchBot Motion and SwitchBot Contact sensors over Read more…

By Kiril Peyanski, 3 hours20/10/2021 ago

Smart Home

How to Use Tuya Homebridge Plugin

We will install the official Tuya Homebridge plugin, so it will be possible to control Tuya smart devices using Apple HomeKit. That means if you have Apple device and powered by Tuya devices you can make them work together natively using the iOS Home app! I will show you how. Read more…

By Kiril Peyanski, 1 week13/10/2021 ago

3D Printing

Noob Assembles Ender3 v2 – best 3D printer under $300

I know almost nothing about 3D printers, nevertheless I’m willing to learn and today I’m going to or at least I will try to assemble an Ender3 V2 3D printer by only looking at the included paper manual, no YouTube tutorials and no Google is allowed, so please join me Read more…

By Kiril Peyanski, 2 weeks06/10/2021 ago