The sensor

I have an outside battery powered temperature/humidity/pressure sensor, here is the list of what it is based on:

• ESP8266 (esp12f), according to espressif
  • from 120 to 170mAh for Tx
  • 10µAh in deep sleep mode
• bme280
  • 3.6µAh at 1Hz when measuring the 3 parameters
• MCP1700-3302E LDO …

So now that I had a Home-Assistant (HA) setup working, an esp8266 booting and that I can write software for, it was time to start making the two talk to each other and make something that can become unseful based on all this.

The choice went to the simplest element …

As I talked about in previous posts, I got some ESP8266 devices I wanted to play with, one has been setup on a breadboard for testing for a while, able to boot, but never got to try anything more on it yet.

Protocol and firmware base choice

As my goal …

• Part 1
• Part 2

My current Home-Assistant setup

Currently my HA homepage looks like this:

Let's first go over the various parts of the UI, and how my setup is currently working befor diving into the configuration file details.

The web UI

• At the top, we have the status of …

Note: Part 1 is here

Electrical setup for living room light

Our new place doesn't have any ceiling lights in the living room, but one switch activated wall plug. It is driven by a 2 way setup of 2 switches, and I decided to put the fibaro dimmer in one …

Introduction

So we moved, again, back to Versailles. I had the bad idea to start looking into home automation before we even moved, and started wondering what I wanted to have or to do.

Defining the need

The thing I was interested in at first was simply controlling the lights …