Improve Your Smart Garden: Easy Bluetooth Range Extension for Jeedom

Spring has arrived, making it the perfect moment to check whether my watering system survived the winter – and to reactivate it. In this article, I’ll explain in detail how I enhanced my existing setup with external Bluetooth antennas. We’ll improve our Jeedom test installation for automatic watering by adding (and cloning) new Bluetooth repeaters (“antennas”) to expand the range for receiving moisture sensor data. … Read more ...

How to install Debian Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

In this quick guide, I’ll show you the essential steps to prepare a Raspberry Pi Zero for use with the Jeedom automation system. You’ll learn how to flash Raspbian Lite on an SD card using a Windows PC, configure Wi-Fi and SSH before first boot, and make a few tweaks for a headless, robust setup.

Installing Jeedom itself is not covered here, but you’ll find … Read more ...