Clip-On Thermometers for My Heating Manifold
Four DS18B20 probes in 3D-printed clips on my heating manifold's pipes, an ESP32 running ESPHome, and flow/return temperatures per circuit...
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11 posts on diy: guides and build notes from clihero.com.
Making My Pergola a Bit Smart: ESP32, CC1101 and ESPHome
My Chinese louvered pergola only had a 433 MHz remote. I sniffed its codes with an ESP32 and CC1101 and put the louvers and light into Home...
CopyTo: A Real-Time Shared Clipboard on Cloudflare Workers
A tiny real-time shared clipboard: open one page on two devices, type on one and it shows up on the other instantly, built serverless on...
Rain-Aware Seasonal Watering in Home Assistant
How my garden irrigation went from a dumb timer to a weather check that never worked, and finally to a seasonal, rain-aware Home Assistant...
A 3D-Printed Radio Mount for My Jeep's MOLLE Panel
Why I run handheld radios when I wheel with a team, and the 3D-printed Baofeng holder I designed for the MOLLE panel in my Wrangler. Free...
Vaillant Boiler, Part 2: Designing a Heating Dashboard in Home Assistant
Part 2 of my Vaillant EcoCompact project: a Home Assistant heating dashboard with boiler gauges, gas usage from eBUS counters and ten...
Tesla Won't Route You in Georgia, So I Built Navigation That Does
Tesla's navigation has no routing in Georgia. I built a map for the car browser: OSRM routing, 3D terrain, voice guidance and Google Maps...
Gaining Root Access on a Xiaomi Camera
My Xiaomi camera's UART RX pad was dead, so I dumped and rewrote its SPI flash with an ESP32 to get a root shell. Full wiring, sketch and...
A DIY Meshtastic Node for My Jeep: ESP32, a 433 MHz LoRa Module and a Printed Case
I built a Meshtastic node from an ESP32, an SX1278 LoRa module and a NEO-6M GPS, wired into my Jeep's 12V system, with the headless...
Making a Cheap “TV LED Strip” a Proper Smart Server Rack Light (ESPHome + Home Assistant)
Turn a cheap Bluetooth TV LED strip into a real Home Assistant light with ESPHome. Full YAML, the 9-byte BLE packet format, and why LED BLE...
Making My Vaillant EcoCompact Boiler Smart with eBUSd and Home Assistant
Read live flow temperature, burner modulation and pressure from a Vaillant EcoCompact VSC266 in Home Assistant using an eBUS adapter, ebusd...