Category: Smart Home
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How to Keep Hot Water Running When Home Assistant Goes Down: A Shelly Pro 1PM Fallback
A practical pattern for keeping a hot-water relay useful during a Home Assistant outage: diagnose competing automations, then move the essential schedule onto a Shelly Pro 1PM local…
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TEKONLINE 8-Zone HVAC Controller V3: ESPHome Firmware with 0–100% Damper Control
Learn how the TekOnline 8-zone ESPHome/Home Assistant V3 uses timed 24VAC damper control, 60-second calibration, direction inversion and safe alpha testing.
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24VAC Three-Wire Damper Wiring: Open, Common & Close
A quick wiring reference for standard 24VAC three-wire HVAC dampers: terminals 1–2 drive open, 3–4 common, and 5–6 drive closed.
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What’s new in the TekOnline 8-Zone HVAC Controller V3?
Control up to eight 24VAC HVAC dampers with ESPHome and Home Assistant. TekOnline V3 adds individual timed damper positioning, current monitoring and advanced UART expansion.
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Can You Reuse Your ZoneMaster ZoneSwitch V2 Dampers With a 24VAC Smart Zone Controller?
Replacing a Polyaire ZoneMaster ZoneSwitch V2 with a smart zone controller. Standard 24VAC OPEN / COMMON / CLOSE dampers can often be retained. Wiring and pinout must be…
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Send Customers Straight to Your Product Reviews
A deep link opens a product page at the review section. Add #reviews to the product URL to build the link.
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Shelly Locked Out ESPHome — Why Your Smart Home Can’t Stay Uniform
Shelly Gen3 and Gen4 relays cannot run ESPHome. Gen1 and Gen2 models are gone from stores. Here is what you lose and what to buy instead.
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HVAC Zone Controller Compatibility Matrix: TekOnline vs Advantage Air, Polyaire & More
The TekOnline ZoneControl range works with most 24VAC ducted HVAC systems. This matrix compares the 4-Zone Wall Controller and 8-Zone Roof-Space Controller against three common Australian systems: Polyaire…
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Custom Zone Labels for the 4-Zone Wall Controller
Print custom zone labels for the 4-Zone Wall Controller. The front faceplate now fits a Clipsal 2000 Series clip-on surround. Free SVG template for Inkscape. Step-by-step guide.
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When Your Shelly Overheats: Temperature-Driven Control for Hot Water
This is a follow-up to our earlier article on Solar Hot Water Diversion with Home Assistant and Shelly: A Debugging Story. The Setup We published our solar hot…