Tasmota
Alternative firmware for ESP8266 with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at (by arendst)
WLED
Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi! (by Aircoookie)
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| Tasmota | WLED | |
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| 113 | 318 | |
| 17,633 | 8,852 | |
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| 9.9 | 9.5 | |
| about 14 hours ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Tasmota
Posts with mentions or reviews of Tasmota.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.
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How do apps discover IoT Devices?
BTW, there is one more way - if your devices are connecting to some kind of central hub, e.g. MQTT broker, they may send a "sticky" (retained) message with discovery info to some known topic - Tasmota is using this way, devices are publishing to tasmota/discovery/id and every time MQTT client connects it gets lastly updated autoconf info.
- Any way to wirelessly control power as a switch?
- sonoff RF Bridge (433MHz) for Tasmota - new vs old version hardware?
- Caffè Italia * 02/05/22
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Weight sensor w/ nodemcu, HX711, load cells: Help! Can’t calibrate.
Just seeing your edit. WeightRaw is changing, so that is a good sign that everything might be hooked up right. I believe weight is in KG so it won't necessary change unless you put over a KG on the scale. I looked at the code for this and couldn't easily figure out what might be causing the calibration failure. I don't have time to figure out what all is going on there.
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Waking up to a BBC News technology article on Vampire Devices only to end up irrationally angry at how out of date the costs are and how stupid the advice is.
These are Tuya ones (unfortunately, the specific one on Amazon has been removed now, so can't share a link) reflashed with Tasmota so I can use them natively with Home Assistant rather than bouncing through a third-party cloud service. Bit of logic to manage the transitions from "not using power" to "using power" and convert that into notifications to the various Google Homes.
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MQTT
If it's a simple thing, the Tasmota firmware might do everything you need without a single line of code.
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Shameful: Insteon looks dead–just like its users’ smart homes
The lesson here is to never buy a smart home product which can only be controlled/montitored/upgraded via a cloud service provided by the hardware vendor. If the product cannot be controlled and monitored from your home network while unplugged from the internet, then there is some risk that this type of experience can happen again. Tasmota [0] allows a user to erase the vendor provided firmware, of ESP chipset devices, with well maintained open source firmware so that is never reliant on the vendor ever again. This is one example. Perhaps there are others.
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Smart home not an online home
You can use wifi devices, you just have to be careful about it. Anything that is supported by the Tasmota Project (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) can be re-flashed with their firmware which doesn't make any calls to the internet and will directly talked to by anything that supports the MQTT protocol (Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc)
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Water tank level metter with TOF10120 and Sonoff basic
Here's the list https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/blob/development/BUILDS.md
WLED
Posts with mentions or reviews of WLED.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.
- WLED, OpenRGB, LedFX, EyeTune and iTunes.
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Will WLED ever support the HD108 chipset?
16 bit support has been an interesting topic of conversation. https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/issues/2252
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Remote Control for Esp32
WLED project: https://kno.wled.ge/, Android app for remote control available...
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Room decor?
WLED, ~5$ ESP8266, and some NeoPixel strip (plus power supply). Minimal soldering skill required.
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Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
Shoutout to WLED[0]. When I was able to flash my ESP with the latest version just from the browser I was kind of blown away. I was blindsided by it even though I have a lot of ESP projects myself and consider myself 'into the space'.
- I have no idea where i should post this, but i need to find some sort of controller i can use for these addressable 3-pin LED’s. Should be common but i can’t find anything myself, and i’ve looked for a while. Any ideas? Prior knowledge? Anything helps.
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Laptop RGB deck lighting
If you're not afraid of a little DIY, look into WLED. Can control from a web browser and a number of APIs.
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My newest project: Dedicated blinkenlights for your rack.
wled? esp32 board using a variety of simple leds https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED
- hobbik, lehet venni értelmes dolgot 10k forintból?
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software to animate sk6812?
https://kno.wled.ge/ WLED for simple
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Tasmota and WLED you can also consider the following projects:
FastLED - The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements.
esp-homekit-devices - Project to add native Apple HomeKit support to any device with an ESP8266 chip
tuya-iotos-embeded-sdk-wifi-ble-bk7231n - Tuya IoTOS Embeded SDK WiFi & BLE for BK7231N
zigbee2mqtt - Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨
OpenRGB
esphome - ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
ESP-Now - ESP-Now Examples
hyperion.ng - The successor to Hyperion aka Hyperion Next Generation
sonoff-hack - Custom firmware for Sonoff GK-200MP2B camera
LedFx - LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effectvice syncronized effects across your entire house!
arduino-esp32 - Arduino core for the ESP32