I recently finished a project which tied together a bunch of different tinkering skills I’ve had a lot of fun learning about over the last couple of years. The finished product is this: It shows me: The time Weather: current, weekly forecast, readings from an outdoor thermometer, and temperature in the city I work in. […]
Category Archives: home automation
Solar-Powered Outdoor Thermometer with Multiple DS18B20 Sensors
I’ve been pretty happy with how my ESP8266-powered outdoor thermometers turned out. One of these has two sensors — one to measure ambient temperature, and one to measure the temperature of a hot tub. It’s solar-powered (with an 18650 Li-Ion battery), uses a single GPIO pin, and never needs charging! DS18B20 Temperature Sensor DS18B20s* are […]
Using a Milight remote with HomeAssistant
Milight sells 2.4 GHz remotes* for quite cheap (~$12) which can be used to control Milight bulbs*. They also make in-wall panels* that do the same thing. These work quite well, but if you’re using something like HASS, you’ll end up with stale state. For example, if you turn lights on with the remote, that […]