Smart Home
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Smart Mailbox Project
I made my mailbox smart by adding a fingerprint lock and two zigbee contact sensors for…
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Making wall switches smart using ESPHome
Just because your smart home can be controlled with apps and voice assistants, that doesn’t mean…
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Automating Santa for Christmas – ESPHome and Santa Snow Globe
Make your battery-powered devices smart using this simple hack. Last year, I made my Christmas trains…
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Control your HiFi with ESPHome and HDMI CEC!
Want to take HDMI control and automation to the next level? I am happy to confirm…
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Invisible Touch Sensor Using Shelly
Bought this awesome “invisible” touch sensor that works through many surfaces up to 25mm and integrated…
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mmWave sensor speedtest
SPEEDTEST! Hue motion sensor (PIR test winner) vs mmWave sensors: – Everything Presence Lite (LD2450) –…
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Turning the Philips Hue Tap Dial Switch into the perfect media player remote.
In the Hue app the dial switch can only control lights, but using Home Assistant and…
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License Plate Recognition (LPR) using platerecognizer.com
When LPR is enabled in Home Assistant and my driveway PIR detects motion, I send a…
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Automating My Car’s Infotainment Based on Time and Location
I made an iOS Shortcut that automatically opens different apps and plays different content in my…
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Local, real-time power monitoring using an ESP32-based MEP module
I recently bought and installed this really cool open-source “Dabbler” ESP32-based MEP interface module that transmits…
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IKEA RODRET remote teardown – could this be a dual mailbox sensor?
Cheap alternative to buying two zigbee contact sensors for your mailbox? Recently, I had an idea:…
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Modding IKEA Smart Blinds for direct USB charging
IKEA blinds can’t operate and will leave the zigbee mesh when they are charging (because you…
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The best way of controlling music from the shower
No need to bring your phone or yell “volume up, volume up” in the shower. Just…
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Speed test: Local control beats cloud.
Local control beats cloud; Not only in terms of reliability, but also speed! One of the…
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Hacking a Christmas Tree Train to work with Home Assistant
Wanted my Christmas tree trains to drive automatically (only) when someone is in the living room,…