Home Automation Counting Room Occupancy with ESPresense and Home Assistant I've written before about using an ESP32 to do Better Presence Detection with Home Assistant and ESPresense. ESPresense works by using ESP32s positioned in different rooms to track
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Home Automation Controlling Icon Colour with Mushroom UI From time to time, I'll scroll through the internet looking for home automation ideals that others have implemented and that I might be able to take some inspiration
Home Automation Controlling multiple devices with the Sonoff NSPanel and Tasmota A few months ago, I got a Sonoff NSPanel, and I've been waiting for some downtime to have a proper play with it and figure out how I
Home Automation Creating a Wall-Mounted Dashboard for Home Assistant When I started my home automation journey just over two years ago, I did so with the vision of having some kind of wall-mounted dashboard to control everything in the
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Home Automation Better Presence Detection with Home Assistant and ESPresense One of the first things I did when I started with Home Assistant was to get to grips with using motion sensors to trigger automations. Motion sensors work well for
