Home Assistant
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This DIY Home Assistant Remote Runs an ESP32-H2 Over Zigbee for About 4 Months a Charge A wall-mounted tablet can run the whole house, but sometimes you just want a button. Reddit maker Zweetkonijn built his own Home Assistant remote control with a custom PCB, a 3D-printed case that looks a lot like a Google TV remote, and an ESP32-H2 that talks Zigbee. Total material cost was about 40 euros, and the post passed 900 upvotes on r/homeassistant in half a day. Why the ESP32-H2… |
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This Lenovo ThinkSmart View Now Runs Debian and a Rust Voice Butler for Home Assistant Thousands of Lenovo ThinkSmart View displays were built for Microsoft Teams calls and are now turning up second-hand for very little money. They have no battery, decent microphones and a speaker, and they are designed to stay switched on. Reddit maker m_s_ik turned one into a dedicated Home Assistant voice assistant and wall panel by replacing Android with a minimal Debian and a single program… |
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He Wouldn't Pay for a Smart Blood Pressure Monitor, So an ESP32-CAM Now Reads His Old One Smart blood pressure monitors that sync to an app usually cost more than plain ones, and many push your readings into somebody else's cloud account. Tomasz Burzy of Mellow_Labs wanted his readings in his own self-hosted health tracker instead, so he kept a basic A&D UA-611 monitor and taught it Wi-Fi from the outside. An ESP32-CAM on a 3D-printed arm looks at the LCD, reads systolic,… |
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This DIY Open-Source mmWave Presence Sensor Features ESP32-C6 With Precision 2D Spatial Tracking Traditional infrared presence sensors are cheap, but unreliable for smart homes, often turning off lights if you remain still for even a few seconds. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar modules offer a far superior alternative by detecting micro-movements like breathing and even tracking a person's exact 2D position in a room. However, commercial mmWave presence sensors can cost anywhere from $40… |
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ESP32-Based Smart Mailbox Uses Computer Vision to Detect Packages and Trigger Motorized Doors and Alerts The project documents a fully automated smart mailbox built by Re-Crafting DIY. It integrates advanced electronics to solve practical issues like package theft, weather damage, and inadequate storage space. By repurposing an old car’s wiper motor for the door mechanism, the mailbox features a heavy-duty, motorized front door controlled by a central brain. It might have been a little too much… |
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ESP32-S3 Sensor Hub: 8 Sensors on a Single Compact PCB Maker MagmaBow has unveiled a high-density security development board that challenges the traditional "one sensor, one device" model. Built around the powerful ESP32-S3 module, the project successfully integrates eight distinct sensors including thermal IR, Time-of-Flight distance tracking, and dual accelerometers onto a single, compact PCB. By consolidating these components into one footprint… |
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This ChatGPT-Powered DIY Robot Has a Personality YouTuber, Jack Of All Tech, in his new DIY project, combines a Raspberry Pi, ChatGPT, and Home Assistant to build a robot that almost feels human. It is voice-controlled and has an interface that's styled like a companion. With a dash of character, this build goes a level above a typical smart home setup. The robot runs Home Assistant Supervised on Raspberry Pi OS Lite, giving it… |
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How to Set a Static IP on Raspberry Pi? If you've ever worked with a Raspberry Pi, you’ve probably run into that annoying moment when your Raspberry Pi just disappears from the network. You try to SSH into it or access a local web dashboard, but suddenly it's not there. You fire up the terminal and type ping raspberrypi.local, and nothing. It turns out, your router handed the Pi a different IP address this… |
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ESP32 DIY All-in-One Universal Remote The Stock Pot, A local hobbyist has built a smart remote control as a personal solution to a worn-out TV remote. Instead of replacing parts, he decided to create a custom remote from the ground up, and made a full tutorial so others can follow along too. At the core of the project is an ESP32, a small, budget-friendly microcontroller that's really popular for smart home builds. With it… |
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Intelligent Farming System Using IoT and Edge AI For this contest, I want to build something around edge AI and IoT. I also want this to tackle a real-world problem and be relevant to my interest i.e. IoT. So, I'm relating the theme to my interest in developing an Intelligent Farming System Using IoT and Edge AI, which can help solve the real-world problem of wasteful… |
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The Smart PanelIntroduction
The idea is to use the Sipeed Maxduino Board and an ESP8266 (Nodemcu) With the help of Platform IO and Ardunio Cloud/EspHome. The basics are to attach a four-channel relay and touch sensors hooked up to the NodeMCU board, making it a smart switch unlike other smart switches, which look and feel the same. This switch has some extra features that make it… |
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Home Assistant Yellow: The Future of Smart Home Connectivity Home Assistant Yellow, the groundbreaking smart home hub that has taken the home automation world by storm, is not just a product but the result of years of dedication and collaboration by the passionate team behind Home Assistant. With a successful crowdfunding campaign and an impressive amount raised, Home Assistant Yellow has become a… |
