Sonoff Mini vs. Shelly1 – Tiny Smart Switch Battle

Besides just showing off the awesome stuff you can do with home automation, we’re using the Maker Faire display to demonstrate a few different situations that have come up in questions and comments on previous videos. First, let’s look at a light switch wiring situation from my first “sonoff-as-a-light-switch” video. When I was explaining different…

  Wouldn’t it be great to have a custom UI that would show all your smart home devices laid out on a floorplan of your house. So with just a glance you could see which lights are on, which doors are open, or where there are people moving around?  Of course you’d also want to…

I decided to tear down a UL approved “smart switch” and compare it to the Sonoff Basic so I could create a modified Sonoff with all the UL-approvable parts included. I called my new creation the Zzonoff! Ingredients: Sonoff Basic: https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-wifi-wireless-switch.html Or, for not much more and faster shipping: http://amzn.to/2GJnd4b Capacitive Touch Module: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10PCS-Blue-HTTM-SCB-2-7V-6V-Capacitive-Touch-Switch-Module-Strong-anti-interference/32837535126.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.aLxG0f Again…

Let’s look at the Sonoff T1 U.S version. We’ve got a lot of spots in our house that have 3 light switches. It’s usually a plug, a fan, and an outlet connected to a switch. I’d love to be able to replace those switches with just one of these Sonoff T1s. Before I can do…

This is a follow up to “Using Sonoff as a Light Switch” Leave it connected. Go to your Router and find the new device with “sonoff” in the name. Get its IP address and put it in the browser. If everything worked you should see the control page for the sonoff. Under Configuration Change GPIO…