Plays with tech.
Plays with tech.
Update June 2025: I’ve made further updates to resolve the PSRAM and rmt_channel issues. The config should work withou any mods now 🙂 Update November 2024: I have made some updates to the ESPHome .yaml config in an attempt to…
Last year (2023) was Home Assistant’s Year of the Voice so I thought there’d be no better way to start 2024 than by building my own Home Assistant powered smart speaker. It’s based on an ESP32 Lyrat dev board which…
My wife and I were fortunate enough to buy a house recently which has presented many opportunities to integrate items with Home Assistant. The house came with an Aritech CS350 based alarm which was installed in 1994 – when I…
Jeff Geerling recently made a great video where he explained how smart home solutions should be additive (i.e. when making a light “smart”, you should add smart functionality to it while you retain the ability to control it from the…
We recently moved into a house that has an ESB issued smart electricity meter (Kamstrup model 8660) in the utility cupboard outside of the house. Unfortunately the smart meter has no direct integration with Home Assistant so I needed to…
Privacy focused “smart” doorbells seem to be few and far between so I decided to build one that integrates with Home Assistant via ESPHome and is easy to build. This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton…