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Integrating TeHyBug with Home Assistant, MQTT, Telegram, Tasmota and other smart-home systems.
Tasmota is an open-source firmware for smart home devices that provides a powerful and flexible platform for controlling and automating your home. By flashing your TeHyRelay/GumRelay device with Tasmota firmware, you can take advantage of a wide range of features and integrations that are not available with the default firmware. To get started with Tasmota, […]
We spend over 90% of our time indoors, where the amount of CO2 we exhale has a significant impact on our health and well-being. High CO2 concentrations not only lead to tiredness, headaches and can cause dizziness, they are also a good indicator of when the distribution of aerosols in the air exceeds a value […]
TeHyBug Bot for Telegram messenger exists already for several years, but not many are using it, probably because they don’t know what it is and how to use it. First of all, you will need a Telegram messenger you can install from the apple app store on iPhone or google play store on Android. Then […]
Both technologies have their advantages and disadvantages, here is a side-by-side comparison of ZigBee vs Wifi sensors for the smart home. For my comparison, I take the TeHyBug Wifi sensor and Aquara ZigBee Sensor which is connected through a HeilBee v4.5 ZigBee stick to my HomeAssistant. ZigBee WIFI Requires a special ZigBee hub or coordinator […]
There are several ways it add a TeHyBug to your HomeAssistant.1. Embed a public graph to your dashboard.2. Add it as an MQTT Sensor to your Homeassistant. Usually, Home Assistant is installed on a Raspberry Pi or similar devices.If you don’t have an MQTT Brocker, here is the instruction on how to install the MQTT […]