Tag: ESPHome
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Flashing Xiaomi BLE sensors and integrating it in Home Assistant
Flashing Xiaomi BLE sensors and integrating it in Home Assistant There is no such thing as ‘too much’ temperature and humidity sensors, right? So I bough another 5 Xiaomi Mi BLE sensors (in Nov. 2024) model LYWSD03MMC. I wanted to flash them OTA (over-the-air) with custom firmware as previous 7 sensor (bougth in 2022-23). But…
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The state of my Home Assistant in 2024
The state of my Home Assistant in 2024 Update (3. 12. 2024) – Misc integrations, Addons and HACS added. My #homeautomation journey started 4 yrs ago (2020) when I bought 1 Aqara #zigbee hub, 1 room temp. sensor and 1 smart socket (for controling the heating of the office). I started with Aqara app. with…
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Homemade ESP32 webcam
Homemade ESP32 webcam Link to the original blog post with a nice text/pictures layout. The problem: I want to see what’s happening around the house, especially if the dog is naughty again and digging holes. Actually, there is no problem. I just like to tinker. The solution: A cheap webcam (10€) integrated in #homeassistant. HW…
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Home Assistant and breaking changes (27. 12. 2023)
I’ve been running #homeassistant for 2 years now and have never dealt with breaking changes. Until today. 1st breaking change: #ESPHome entities are unavailable After updating Home Assistant Core to 2023.12.4 and ESPHome to the latest (Dec. 2023) I’ve noticed ESP entities marked as ‘Unavailable‘. Moreover, all entities had duplicates in the entity list ending…
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The water meter experiment failed successfully
This, my dears, this is how to fail spectacularly:I wanted to measure my home’s water consumption and track it in Home Assistant. I failed (for now). Read on to find out what happens if you buy all the correct components, follow the instructions but fail to check the type of the water meter first. I’ve…