Apologies to everyone as this post is not directly related to Node-RED. I know many people on the Forum use the Wemos D1 Mini in their projects to collect data and send it to Node-RED via MQTT, so you may be interested in hearing about this device... This is one example (click the purple coloured …

Finally, had some spare time to solder some pins and headers onto a ESP32-S2 Mini. Then to see if it worked... lashed up a SSD1306 OLED panel driven via the I2C bus. [S2_soldered]

All the items I've bought from China in the last three years or so - have VAT charged at the point of sale. So you pay the price of the item plus postage plus VAT on the total. I assume the equivalent of the Chinese HMRC pays the VAT they collect to UK HMRC.

Cool, good to know. I must admit, I'd virtually stopped buying direct because I wasn't sure about the import duty. Though I've used Banggood a few times because they offer an insurance that will cover unexpected duty I think.

In October I ordered £45 worth of widgets from aliexpress. Had to pay VAT and shipping up front but no import duty. So maybe duty is less of a risk these days. Although in the past I bought a mobile phone and escaped import duty. It's all part of the excitement of trading with the orient, along wi…

[image] jbudd: t's all part of the excitement of trading with the orient, along with unexpected parcels a couple of months after you forgot ordering The older you get, the bigger the surprise :slight_smile:

Now all you have to do is find a board that supports zigbee and runs of a couple of AA batteries for a year :grin:

Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered 10 from aliexpress. £24.32 including VAT and delivery. Delivery was £2.16 + VAT. ESP32s were £1.86 with a bit of discount for 5 or more.The prices shown on Ali do not include VAT but it is added at checkout. How HMRC got China to collect taxes for them I'l…

ESP32-C6 Wi-Fi 6 & BLE 5 & Thread/Zigbee SoC | Espressif Systems ESP32-C6 is Espressif’s first Wi-Fi 6 SoC integrating 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 (LE) and the 802.15.4 protocol. ESP32-C6 achieves an industry-leading RF performance, with reliable security features and rich memory resou…

Interesting indeed! A RISC-V microprocessor though so expect it to take a while before the Ardiuno IDE and alt. firmwares catch up. ESP32-C6 Thread and Zigbee CPU DevKit Limitations | Medium But thanks for sharing. I'll certainly be keeping an eye out for developments.

I pay the extra for aliexpress standard shipping or epacket. It's usually only a few dollars more ~$5 CAD or so and comes in a few weeks instead of a few months.

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I'd buy some of those for sure!

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