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New hardware model! Hestia Zero – your feedback please…

After our successful crowd-funding campaign we got lots of feedback from newcomers…We are investigating the addition (not replacement of existing) of a new hardware version and we want your feedback on this one.As many people came from the openHAB land they already had an instance of openHAB running in their houses in more powerful...

The Cost of Hacking

This is a gentle warning to those who love disassembling everything, including our HestiaPi Touch. Some people have damaged their LCD’s touch functionality (the display though works fine) by misaligning the connector as shown on the picture. Our case aligns the LCD correctly but if you decide to take things apart, make sure you...

Loose rivets and broken LCD hooks

A few people who have received HestiaPi ONE from CrowdSupply/Mouser report broken parts upon arrival. Although this is indeed true for some unfortunate cases, we want to clarify a few things: All orders placed directly on HestiaPi.com are not at risk as we have been doing that for some time and we know how...

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) – The Case Chapter

HestiaPi has done great so far but we need to push even further if we want this project to be financially self-sustainable. From our latest crowd funding campaign we realised that 3D printing will be a bottleneck if we want this for mass production. As our volumes are below 10k units, injection molding is...

Thank you for staying with us!

Our greatest year is about to come to an end! In 2019 we started our company, launched successfully our first crowdfunding campaign and released our first product truly based on our community requests! This is huge! Our community size has doubled so far with more input and contributions on ideas and designs than ever!...

Makers… ready, download, GO!

Without further ado, we are announcing the official release of the latest complete version named ONE as it unifies all previous features in ONE. Head over the Download section for the code and ready image files, PCB (Gerber) and 3D files (.stl) along with links to all GitHub repos! Forum is already gaining momentum...

Shipping Soon

The HestiaPi Touch devices have made it to Crowd Supply for distribution, and your orders will begin shipping soon. There were some hiccups in the way but all devices have now arrived at Crowd Supply’s headquarters where they are being counted and processed for shipment. We’re expecting all campaign orders to ship before the...

PCB-Notes-ONE

ONE – Supported features – 4 solid state relays can control (depending on model) heating, 2nd stage heating, AC, fan, humidity or hot water – Mains (100-240V AC) and HVAC (24V AC) support (depending on model) – BME280 support (through extension wire) – Dedicated LCD male header allows easier installation Known issues – RaspberryPi...

Release notes and Instructions for image file ONE v1.1

>> Discussion area << Please note that this release may take up to 30 minutes to fully load the first time. Supported features: Based on Jessie Lite (2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie-lite) Running official openHAB 2.4 New responsive LCD UI with improved functionality (all credits to @jay – thank you!) HABPanel is not used any more Improved MQTT...

Soldering guide

During the past weeks we have been very busy soldering and assembling your (too many) units, so we thought about making a little video for people who will be soldering their boards themselves. Checkout in the description the extra tools we made to make (y)our life easier.

No customs charges for US and EU orders!

We are very excited to announce that our latest fulfilment scheme includes at no extra cost customs clearance services for all US and EU customers! That means that what you pay at checkout is the total you will be charged for without any surprises as customs! So all hesitant customers are free to order...

No more slow LCD [VIDEO]

While the campaign is going strong, we are working hard redesigning many parts. One of the most popular requests has always been the LCD UI. Let’s dig right into it…

HestiaPi + ESP = <3

So you’ve heard us brag about being open and all that, but how does this really help you? In this update you will see how easy it is to add a wireless relay without being tied to a specific vendor. So the idea is to add a wireless relay contact anywhere in your house...

United we stand! (aka we got funded!!!)

Lowering the Funding Goal We’ve made the decision to lower the initial minimum budget from $48k USD to only $6k and soon after we got funded! We’ve made this decision after discussing the numbers with Crowd Supply HQ, and they confirmed that a reduction in the funding goal was feasible. This is partially possible...

You don’t get to decide what is happening in your house (or do you?)

If you haven’t heard already, earlier this week Nest announced they are killing the support of external devices communicating with the API. Popular services like IFTTT, along with pretty much most existing integrations will stop talking to Nest as a result of this action! The “Works With Nest” program and the API has been...

Campaign is Live!

The HestiaPi campaign is now live on Crowd Supply! Learn more on the main campaign page and reserve yours today from 99USD and free US shipping.

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