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 the relative movement of a person by monitoring the signal strength of a BLE device that they carry (such as
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 from. About 8 or 9 months ago I saw a post on Twitter where someone had integrated an API with
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 want to use it in the house. New IoT toy! Now what should I use it for 🤔 pic.twitter.com/
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 house. As I've grown the automation in the house over the last few years, I've
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 identifying when someone goes into a room, but if you want to try and figure out when someone is no
Home Automation Detecting water leaks with Shelly Flood I'm a strong advocate of how Shelly devices can be a useful addition to automating your home. I've written previously about how I've used Shelly's to make my existing light switches smart and how I've used Shelly's to
Home Automation Energy Monitoring with Shelly EM and Home Assistant Over the last couple of years, I've been putting Shelly devices into my house as part of my home automation journey. Although I've mainly used Shelly devices for automating lighting, they produce other devices such as an Energy Monitory (Shelly EM). So, with the recent energy
