Tag: Firmware

Taking LED strips to another dimension with WLED and LedFx, NodeMCU and Home Assistant

Well, This post is loaded, where we are going to see different products that also combine them make magic. We're going to connect a WS2812B LED strip to a NodeMCU and load WLED to get some really cool effects, we will also mount LedFx to move the LEDs with audio and we will end up presenting everything through Home Assistant for home automation control.

Integrating a Sonoff Touch into Home Assistant

As you already know, Sonoff has a marvel of devices, with which we can control everything we can think of, in this post we will see how to use the Sonoff Touch, a Wifi switch that we can put in our homes, replacing traditional switches. Apart from having an aesthetic that I personally love, we can change the firmware to integrate it with our Home Assistant installation and be able to control any light in the house / office.

Putting Tasmota in a SonOff with a Raspberry Pi

Well, after a while tinkering with these wonderful devices, I wanted to share with you some steps that you may need. The SonOffs are small Wifi modules based on ESP8266 with a relay. Ideal for remotely controlling a lamp… or whatever we need to turn off and on remotely. In this post we will see how to flash them and change the firmware and install Tasmota with a Raspberry Pi; sincerely, I found it to be the simplest option of all the ones I tried and it works with all SonOffs.

Booting HP Firmware Maintenance or HP SmartStart CDs with a USB flash drive

I've been wanting to post this post for a long time, something simple like the previous one but many times we find ourselves (for savings issues) HP servers without CD drive, so before installing the operating system we need to update the firmware of all the components of the server with the HP Firmware Maintenance CD and later with the HP SmartStart CD prepare the boot, install HP utilities and drivers on the machine itself. In the case of not having a server with a CD drive, we can with an HP utility dump them into an external USB drive or a pen drive.