Home Assistant, ESPHome, soldering iron in one hand, schematic in the other. The house should work for us, not the other way around — and yes, the hot tub is automated.
UniFi Protect 7.1.55 added webhook shortcuts to the camera live view. I wired four to a single Home Assistant automation the same evening — one webhook, one query parameter, the room is sorted.
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Smart pet buttons for our 8-week-old puppy Poppy. A Sonoff Zigbee button hidden inside a paw-embossed RF case, wired up to Home Assistant for text-to-speech.
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I IoT'd an Airwick. An ESP32, a 5V relay, ESPHome on the firmware, Home Assistant on top. Aesthetics non-negotiable; the unit had to look stock.
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Sit down at the desk, Windows Hello unlocks, the monitor backlight comes on. A Task Scheduler trigger calling the Home Assistant REST API, wired through one piece of 1990s VBScript.
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Voided the warranty on a brand-new Sonos Play:1 in 24 hours, replaced the figure-eight mains lead with a micro-USB socket and a step-up converter, and made the speaker move with me.
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