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Just curious on how you use Esp8266 based sensors and switches . Can you list some of your best use cases ?

• Klathmon 9y ago
  Sure! One of them is hooked up to a button on a humidifier in my house. I pulled it apart, and just solidered it to one of the buttons and just have the esp8266 respond to some lan rest commands. Using Hass I hook that up to the nest's indoor humidity sensor and it auto turns on when needed. Then I grabbed a small load sensor and hooked it up to the ESP8266 to every hour or so send the load value back to Hass for the water tank in the humidifier. So now I also get notifications when I need to fill the water reservoir! Most of them are little things though. One is solidered to the light in my oven that shows if it's on or not, and it can notify us if we leave the oven on, another uses a very hacky (literally 2 paperclips!) Short sensor to say when I open a drawer next to my desk. If I haven't opened it by 9:30 and work is on my calendar, it will notify my phone reminding me to take my medicine! Once you have the major components setup in something like Hass, and you've worked through the headache of setting up the esp8266s, it becomes really quick, and there are so many uses for them. My next idea is to put a load sensor in the center post of my chair and notify me if I've been sitting for too long (and maybe of the sensor is accurate enough, maybe weigh me every day? I'm like 90% sire it won't be though...)
  • Jayakumark 9y ago
    Thanks , I was just thinking the load sensor one today in my office to lock my computer when I get out of chair and set slack to offline status as I always forget to do that . You should really start a blog or do a write up in hackster.io . Also looks like they announced hass.io to auto update and manage home assistant a breeze