I’m planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I’m considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant’s protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    27 days ago

    My AC is offline, I was thinking I’d just put an infra red LED on a microcontroller in front of it 😅

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Even if you build your own thing to communicate with the AC, Home Assistant is still useful since it lets you easily automate things and interact with other devices, and you get a bunch of things included (nice UI, storage of historical data, dashboards, etc). You could build your thing as a Home Assistant integration.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      26 days ago

      I did this with ESPHome on an ESP8266 connected to an IR led for some rope lights that had IR control. The hard part is finding the codes for each control, but there’s a surprising amount of info out there.