Do you know that on 11th of November is the Chinese Black Friday and there will be a big global shopping festival in AliExpress website named 11.11 Sale? That means you can get some smart sensors and items a lot cheaper than usual. 11th of November is also known as Singles’ Day for understandable reasons (11.11). As far as I know this is the best time of the year to purchase something from AliExpress and to make your home even smarter.
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What you can expect here?
In this article I will make a list of discounted items and I will rank them for you so you don’t have to bother searching smart home items in the enormous AliExpress website.
On top, I will not just list you some random stuff, but I will also try to point you to some good tutorials that you can use right away to get the max value of your purchases.
When AliExpress Singles’ Day ends?
One more important thing before we begin. In order not to miss the AliExpress Biggest Sale of the year, please, mind the exact end date and time, as everything will stop on Nov 12, 11:59 PM PT, so you have to act before that deadline if you want to get the discounts.
With that being said let’s start!
Item 5 of my TOP5 Smart Home ranking during Singles Day
The item number 5 of my TOP 5 Smart Home gadgets ranking during AliExpress Singles’ day is a robot vacuum cleaner. And I’m talking about the brand new model from this year called Roborock S7 Pro Ultra.
Roborock S7 Pro Ultra have double the suction power of the previous model and it cleans everything including itself, as it have a self-emptying base, auto water tank refiling and auto mop washer.
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- Roborock S7 Pro Ultra – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DBdZS7d
- Roborock S7 Pro Ultra – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DlsP8aF
You can integrate the Roborock S7 Pro Ultra with Home Assistant using two different methods: simple and advanced one. I’m describing both of them in details in this article Home Assistant Roborock S7 Integration (HOW-TO) In the article I’m using the previous model, the regular Roborock S7, but the principle and steps are exactly the same.
Item 4 of my TOP5 Smart Home ranking during Singles Day
Going to the next item of my TOP 5 Smart Home gadgets ranking during AliExpress Singles’ day. The items on spot number 4 are actually two, but they are pretty similar and they are perfect match for every Smart Home enthusiast out there.
I’m talking about one of the most popular IoT Boards that can be used, as the brain of many Smart Home Projects. The exact models of these boards are D1 Mini ESP8266 which is the older and cheaper model:
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- D1 Mini ESP8266 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dkt1xHN
- D1 Mini ESP8266 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DkIYkP5
And D1 Mini ESP32 which is little more expensive, but more modern, more faster and with Bluetooth support.
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- D1 Mini ESP32 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DBynbmn
- D1 Mini ESP32 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DB50zJh
Both boards can be easily flashed with a custom firmware like Tasmota or ESPHome and numerous smart sensors can be attached to them, so you can DIY smart Temperature & Humidity, Motion, Gas, PH and many more sensors for very cheap.
Check this category on my website, where I’m using these exact boards to do exactly that – cheap and useful Smart Sensors that are working with Home Assistant.
Home Assistant Webinar
I’m often talking about Home Assistant, but it might be the case that you still don’t know what is that animal exactly.
To help you further here I created a free Home Assistant Webinar where I’m explaining the most important things about this topic.
You can register for the Webinar right now on my other website – > https://automatelike.pro/webinar
Item 3 of my TOP5 Smart Home ranking during Singles Day
The item number 3 from my TOP 5 Smart Home gadgets ranking during AliExpress Singles’ day is a big one it is a Creality 3D printer Ender v2.
With this printer you can 3D print all kind of stuff, some of them useful and some of them totally useless. If you have kids, this printer will become kind of best toy that produce new toys on demand.
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- Creality 3D Printer Ender3 v2 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DBxDuJ9
- Creality 3D Printer Ender3 v2 – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DDrcsCX
Setting up this printer is tricky, but I have an article where you can see all the glitches that I faced and avoid them beautifully – Noob Assembles Ender3 v2 – best 3D printer under $300
If you always wanted a 3D printer, now is the best time to buy one. On top, Creality 3D printer Ender v2 is probably the best 3D printer that you can get under $300 and the price during the AliExpress Global Shipping Festival should be probably the best during the whole year.
Item 2 of my TOP5 Smart Home ranking during Singles Day
Small and cheap, but useful and durable the item number 2 from my TOP 5 Smart Home gadgets ranking during AliExpress Singles’ day is a Xiaomi T&H Sensor.
This sensor can last around a year with one cheap battery. It uses a Bluetooth for a wireless communication and can be easily added in Home Assistant as I’m describing here – Xiaomi Bluetooth Home Assistant Integration just Got Easier!
When you add that T&H sensor in Home Assistant you can make ton of automations. For example: when the temperature drops below a certain threshold start the heating or vice versa if it goes to the roof and gets too hot start the AC.
The Xiaomi T&H Sensor usually cost around 6-7 US dollars, but now you can find it under 5 especially if you buy a set of 4 or 5 pieces.
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- Xiaomi T&H Sensor – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DcvfNPt
- Xiaomi T&H Sensor – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DEfdr2X
Item 1 of my TOP5 Smart Home ranking during Singles Day
The item number 1 from my TOP 5 Smart Home gadgets ranking during AliExpress Singles’ is a smart camera board called ESP32-CAM.
This board can be found for around $5 and can be used to easily DIY a wireless live streaming camera for Home Assistant.
- Affiliate links with 11.11 SALE discounts:
- ESP32-CAM Board – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DkU0BNV
- ESP32-CAM Board – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dk7p8aj
- ESP32-CAM Board – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DDKnQQb
I’m showing every step of that process and I share everything in this article of mine – 5$ live streaming camera for Home Assistant | ESP32-CAM tutorial
Following the instructions from the article above you can make one or dozen of such cameras for yourself. Of course, the image quality of the camera cannot compete the one in the latest iPhone, but it is decent enough for many, many purposes.
Free Smart Home Glossary
If some of the Smart Home Acronyms & words that I’m using are not so clear for you, I have a cure for that in a form of one PDF document called the Smart Home Glossary.
Download that PDF for free from my other website -> https://automatelike.pro/glossary
Thank you for reading I’m Kiril & I’m done writing for this week, see you next one. Bye!
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