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Rain Alarm for Astrophotography proto 1 - Rain Sensor | Joris La Cancellera
| | jeff.glass
Electronics Bash - Arduino #10 - Write Better Code
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| | Electronics, Making, Software Development, and Amateur Radio from a Midwest Nerd
| | www.scorpia.co.uk
Building a POE enabled lighting fixture - The blog of Tyler Ward (aka scorpia)
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| | [AI summary] This article details the design and implementation of a POE-enabled lighting fixture with network control, focusing on hardware development, firmware, and integration with theatrical lighting systems.
| | peterbraden.co.uk
ESP32 Air sensors
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| | [AI summary] The author details the process of building an ESP32-based air sensor that measures temperature and humidity, sends data via MQTT to a home server for visualization in Home Assistant, and discusses challenges faced during development.
| | www.earth.li
Local Voice Assistant Step 1: An ATOM Echo voice satellite | Noodles' Emptiness
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| Back when I setup my home automation I ended up with one piece that used an external service: Amazon Alexa. I'd rather not have done this, but voice control is extremely convenient, both for us, and guests. Since then Home Assistant has done a lot of work in developing the capability of a local voice assistant - 2023 was their Year of Voice. I've had brief looks at this in the past, but never quite had the time to dig into setting it up, and was put off by the fact a lot of the setup instructions were just "Download our prebuilt components". While I admire the efforts to get Home Assistant fully packaged for Debian I accept that's a tricky proposition, and settle for running it in a venv on a Debian stable container. Voice requires a lot more binary componen...