I built an offline smart home, and why you should too

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  • IRremoteESP8266

    Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/

  • I am planning to do this soon(TM).

    Probably starting with ESPHome to control my heat pumps over IR.

    The remote works but I forget to turn it off when not in one of the rooms, and it can't do smarts like keeping temperatures in desired bounds.

    An ESP32 running ESPHome with high power IR LED, a presence sensor, temperature sensor, and some pre-built library to control heat pumps[1]. it looks like it should be fairly simple to implement with Home assistant.

    Now if I could only disable the beep from the heat pumps receiving commands.

    I would like to do smarter lighting, but the lack of decent smart light switches that support local control and are also licenced for use in AU are a blocker there.

    [1] https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266/wiki#ir-send...

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