I’m using ESPHome with Home Assistant for a bunch of home automation projects. I want to be able to flash some of the lights in a Morse code “SOS” pattern as an annoying alert that something has gone terribly wrong.…
I have a bunch of ESPHome/ESP8266 projects, several of which are have been plagued by repeated disconnection during seemingly random times of instability. Sometimes they’ll be fine for days, and then suddenly they start acting up again, and it can…
I’m using connections to my home network to indicate presence of family members primarily using the Ping (ICMP) integration, but with this method, iPhones frequently “go offline” because they don’t respond to these pings when trying to safe power. The…
What’s a Deckel? A Deckel is a lid for a drink. It fits over a glass (like one of those large German Maas mugs or a red solo cup) to identify it as your own and to keep the flies…
tl;dr The ESP-12F ADC pin appears to consistently read higher values at times when the processor is not as busy. I worked around this by taking the average of multiple reads, and discarding any averages where the number of samples…
I picked up a $9 Comidox logic analyzer for some ESP8266 work I’m doing, and so far it works great. You really can’t beat the price. Plus, it’s not just for Linux. Here’s how I got it up and running…
I’m rolling my own home security system for pennies on the dollar (and lots and lots of time, but this kind of stuff is fun to me). Here’s what I ended up with for the kitchen. It controls three distinct…
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