Tag Archives: XBee

Hive, ZigBee

Hive SmartPlug and XBee

Posted on by James Saunders
21
May

Since finding out that Hive have restricted their older ‘Smart’ plug from being remotely switched on/off, it become a mini obsession of mine to prove that the plug is still actually capable of being remotely controlled using ZigBee, because I was convinced that is is the same hardware as its predecessor from AlertMe. Hive only […]

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Energy, ZigBee

4-Noks ZB-Connection Gateway and Plug

Posted on by James Saunders
17
Mar

In my previous blog post I wrote about the difficulties I experienced finding any Zigbee based home automation devices on eBay. It almost became an obsession for me to find a Zigbee device which was not either a Xbee, development kit or a book. When I came across a cheap 4-Noks ZC-GW-ETH-EM Ethernet to Zigbee […]

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