Recent content by Keizer

Got the 24VAC lower section all wired up today. It's basically done except for a few odds and ends.

I bought a three pack of the ESP 32 boards. I need to come up with some other projetcs.

Okay, it's all wired up and all relays function. Just have to wire the actual solenoids to the other side of the relays. I tested out an automation that would simulate automatic watering by time of day and it works perfect.

I was playing around with open sprinkler on a Raspberry pi I had laying around. Although you can integrate open sprinkler into Home assistant via HACS, I wanted to use ESPHome and build my own dashboard.

Okay I got it all mocked up on my desk. I only added one entity (Zone 1) to the ESP32 so far. I can now click relay one manually. Fun stuff!!

Exactly what I was wanting to do. There are so many different ESP32 boards online to choose from. Are they all pretty much the same? Here's a list of what I was thinking...

Has anyone built their own smart sprinkler controller for home assistant? I know you can purchase smart controllers that are drop in replacements but building one appeals to me. I'd really like to incorporate something into ESPHome on my home assistant setup. Has anyone done this?

Mine are still going strong after months of every night use. I will say the included little PSU's are under powered in my opinion. One of my units would occasionally turn off, then back on occasionally. It was the PSU. I bought more robust PSU's and never had any issues after that. Oh, and...

Did you get that pic from KiddNapperCarl's You tube channel?

I agree, the kick plate is on the wrong side of the wall. Here's one of mine.

I just started using Home assistant at the beginning of the year. Absolutely love it. Replacing my two Amazon echo/Show devices is high on my list of things to do. I have never heard of the Echo Atoms but they look great!

Yep looks like a tweaker all right. It was probably a waste of time giving her food. Her body probably rejected it.

Welcome!

Definitely got the tower to yourself! Are you using the T-Mobile gateway included with the service?

I've been using an old spare system for my BI setup since day one. It's an Intel i5-4440 and has 16GB of RAM. I did gut the power hungry graphics card out of it, because it was used for gaming previously. It has worked great and has been on 24/7 since I installed BI.