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I love ESPHome. Here's some of the stuff I've been able to accomplish: - Expose IR commands for turning our bedroom fan on/off along with some battery-powered

I love ESPHome. Here's some of the stuff I've been able to accomplish: - Expose IR commands for turning our bedroom fan on/off along with some battery-powered candles - Flashed it to a Sonoff S31 to detect if our electric fireplace is on/off based on power usage. - Secondary ESP32 that controls said fireplace with IR commands and has an attached dfplayer MP3 module to play a loop of fireplace sounds - Wired up some photoresistors to an ESP32 that are spaced to match the status lights on our washing machine. The same ESP32 has an accelerometer attached to our dryer that changes its state depending on vibrations of the dryer. - There's an ESP32 in our garage that has two VL53L0X time-of-flight range sensors to detect whether the garbage or recycling bin is out. In my automations I check if it's garbage or recycling day and send a notification if the bins haven't been taken out. All of my automations are written in C#/.NET using NetDaemon.

cptskippy 4y ago
It amuses me that I feel using an ESP32 is overkill when the ESP8266 is an option.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Exactly the same for me, then I saw the wesp32 recommended here this week and got super interested. POE. https://wesp32.com/ https://wesp32.com/
  - cptskippy 4y ago
    I missed that, thanks for the link!
- pathartl 4y ago
  In my case for the laundry stuff I needed an ESP32 for all the analog inputs.
lostlogin 4y ago
I hooked a big extractor fan up to some ducts. In summer it pushes fresh air into the house, in winter it pushes warm air from a wood burner into the bedrooms. The ESPs and some relays allow me to toggle some valves to change between summer and winter modes. In winter mode Home Assistant automatically checks if the bedrooms are cooler than the room with the fire, and pushes warm air if so. ESP chips are great, and ESPHome makes programming them very easy. ESP-MQTT allows more custom stuff, and I’ve done that via Arduino. I’m sure someone skilled could make something very tidy, mine all all botch jobs, but 3 years later it’s still working fine without maintenance.

cptskippy 4y ago

It amuses me that I feel using an ESP32 is overkill when the ESP8266 is an option.

lostlogin 4y ago
Exactly the same for me, then I saw the wesp32 recommended here this week and got super interested. POE. https://wesp32.com/ https://wesp32.com/
- cptskippy 4y ago
  I missed that, thanks for the link!
pathartl 4y ago
In my case for the laundry stuff I needed an ESP32 for all the analog inputs.

lostlogin 4y ago

I hooked a big extractor fan up to some ducts. In summer it pushes fresh air into the house, in winter it pushes warm air from a wood burner into the bedrooms. The ESPs and some relays allow me to toggle some valves to change between summer and winter modes. In winter mode Home Assistant automatically checks if the bedrooms are cooler than the room with the fire, and pushes warm air if so. ESP chips are great, and ESPHome makes programming them very easy. ESP-MQTT allows more custom stuff, and I’ve done that via Arduino. I’m sure someone skilled could make something very tidy, mine all all botch jobs, but 3 years later it’s still working fine without maintenance.