Today we’re going to finish the Arduino Power Strip – or at least bring it to a state where it’s usable for now and can be controlled using Home Assistant. There is also an issue we need to address.  Read more

Time for an update on the Arduino-controlled power strip! In the last post I described how I built the front plate with the outlets and did a bit of wiring—in this post we will do more of that and be able to even test it for the first time.  Read more

My desk is a mess. When I built it I wanted to be able to switch every device on and off at a central location, so I bought a power strip with lots of switches and ran wires from there. Initially that worked fine, but with an increasing number of devices on and around my desk the mess started to increase as well. To solve this problem for now and (hopefully) forever, I want to build a power strip where each outlet is controlled individually by an Arduino. This allows me to run a single power line to the power strip from any outlet in the room while I’m still able to control every outlet from my desk and, if everything works as planned, even via network from everywhere else.  Read more