Home Assistant & ESPHome Humidifier convert Demo

Here's a brief demo of my latest endeavour - Making a standard Humidifier 'Smart'

Using just a D1 mini programmed with ESPHome (through Home Assistant) I brought all the controls back to Home Assistant, including the Water Level Sens,r. plus, control of the LED/Night-Light.  

Internally I've stepped down the devices' in coming 24VDC supply to 5V, for the D1 mini. Then used the GPIOs to command the Humidifiers own CPU.
At this point the original rotary switch is disconnected. However, in the next update / phase of this project I will add that back in - as well as some indicator lighting.
There is also plans to change the on-board Light for something a li'more... well, RGB!!!  

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Home Assistant: Fans | Thermostats | other DIY - Oh Yeah

The main topic of this Live Stream is 'Ultimate Fan Project'

Watch Dave convert, from scratch, a standard 3-Speed Desk Fan. That note only is controllable from Home Assistant but also has local control by re-deploying the on-board speed selector. Plus add in some speed indicator LEDs

This fan can now be controlled by Home Assistant, Voice and still have manual local control... and of course reap the benefits of temperature, time of day and other automation controls.

You will see how to program a Sonoff Basic to use an 8 port expander to provide the necessary GPIOs for:

• 3 Fan Speeds
• 3 Indicator LEDs
• 3 Speed Selector Buttons

My GitHub page for ESPHome code & Other Info:

https://github.com/3ative/ultimate-fan-project

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ESPHome, Home Assistant DIY Digital Thermostat - demo

Just a quick update for a DIY ESPHome Thermostat...

Using just a D1 Mini programmed with (yes you're guessed it) ESPHome. Dave put together a working Wi-Fi thermostat. It is bi-directional meaning, it is able to control the Software thermostats in Home Assistant and get updates from Home Assistant and everything you need is displayed in the integrated OLED display. 

Once all the kinks are worked out a step-by-step tutorial will be made and the full code will be released.

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