TOPICS
smart home
sensors, home automation and Home Assistant
guide A dumb wireless doorbell in Home Assistant via RF433 and ESP32 How to capture the signal of an ordinary 433 MHz wireless doorbell and send each press to Home Assistant via an ESP32-C3. guide An IR-remote ceiling light via ESP32 and ESPHome How to capture an infrared remote’s codes and control a light from Home Assistant via an ESP32-C3 – without the physical remote. guide An undocumented display on ESP32: identifying it and getting it running How to get a TFT display without a datasheet working on an ESP32: identify it, wire it up and initialise it. Based on the E32R35T board with an ST7796S controller. guide Czech voice control in Home Assistant: models and custom sentences Czech voice control in Home Assistant: local vs. cloud models (Whisper, Piper, Nabu Casa) and custom sentences for energy and the TV through Hassil intents. troubleshooting Foreign Zigbee devices in ZHA: three cases with custom quirks Three cases of taming Zigbee devices in Home Assistant through a ZHA custom quirk: an mmWave presence sensor, a MOES thermostatic valve and the IKEA SOMRIG button. project A smart home on Home Assistant A household run mostly locally: heating by weather and time of day, electricity and gas metering, custom ESP32 devices and notifications on the phone.