Using a Shelly 1 Mini Gen 3 as an MQTT-controllable relay

For my Christmas lights, I've been using homemade MQTT-controllable relays. I've been wiring up an ESP2866, a relay, and a AC-DC converter. While this works, it's a bit of a rat's nest of wiring. So I decided to try …

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I'm one of those Clark Griswold kind of guys that totally over-decorates his house. To make my lights more interesting, I've built my own light animation system which I call PiLit.

Of course, all my code is free and open source. Check it out at https://github.com/skypanther/PiLit …

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