In the world of DIY electronics, combining sensors with microcontrollers opens up a realm of possibilities for monitoring and measuring various environmental factors. One such project involves using an NTC 10K thermistor (Viessmann Speichertemperatursensor NTC 10k l=3750 7725998) and an ESP32 microcontroller to measure water temperature accurately. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the […]
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Observe your Home Energy Consumption with Home Assistant and Dynatrace
Renewable energy and intelligent management of private and industrial energy consumption are prominent topics today. In a recent post I did show how to use a DIY ESP8266 sensor in combination with Home Assistant in order to collect real time data about your energy consumption as well as about the amount of energy that you […]
Retrofit a Motion enabled Light with a Smart Home Assistant Sensor
Retrofitting existing electrical installations with some degree of additional home automation capabilities is a cumbersome activity. Most of the time, the fixed wired installations do not support adding the necessary home automation wires. Even if there is enough space for your home automation wires, the installation routes often do not end where your home automation […]
Use a Telegram Bot to talk with your Smart Home Automation
Telegram is a great way to receive home assistant (HASS) smart home automation information directly pushed to your Android or iPhone. By creating your own Telegram bot you get a lot of flexibility on sending home automation messages or even images from your security cameras to your mobile phone. The first step of attaching a […]
Open Source Home Automation with Esp32 and Home Assistant (Hass.io)
As a dedicated Home Assistant user for years now, I came to write an ebook covering all the important topics around home automation and tinkering your own Esp32 based sensors and actuators. Home Assistant is Open Source, written in Python and a lively community maintains over 3000 custom made components that allow you to control […]
Build a wireless MQTT temperature and humidity sensor for your Home Assistant
Over the last months, I became more and more addicted to Home Assistant (Hass.io) and MQTT low cost wireless sensors. I was already familiar with several home and industrial automation systems that all come with a certain hardware (and price) and build upon a completely proprietary software stack. So long story short, I was searching […]