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It worked!

When I connect my phone to the charger, if it’s after 22:30 and I am at home, all lights turns off. This post on the Home Assistant forum was really helpful.

Now I’ll need to add Home Assistant to Linn’s phone as well and at her to the mix.

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Every now and then I try to set something up in Home Assistant but every time I do it feels so clunky. Still, I want to wrap my head around it and get it working because I really like the idea of it.

If I’ve managed to get things working the way I want, when I connect my phone to the charger tonight, all my lights will turn off. Fingers crossed!

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With inspiration from the excellent The Stock Pot, and in particular the full tutorial for how to Make Your Own Universal Remote (ESPHome + Home Assistant), I’m slowly starting to wrap my head around Home Assistant and ESP8266/ESP32. I’ve managed to wire up a button to my ESP8266 and I can register single, double, or long presses on said button in Home Assistant.

There is a lot more work to be done in Home Assistant itself before I can get anything proper out of this, but I’m making progress and having fun.

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I’ve recently gotten myself a Home Assistant Green. Up until now I haven’t used it for anything in particular. My smart home consists almost exclusively of IKEA stuff at the moment and as long as I keep it that way the Ikea’s own app works fine. I would like to be able to add stuff from other manufacturers though, so that is why I got the Home Assistant and will slowly migrate over to using it instead.

Right now I’m reading up on some ESP32/ESP8266. I would like to make my own simple home automation hardware and this seems like the way to go. I bought a cheap ESP8266 board the other day and I think I’ve managed to install ESPHome on it. It shows up in my network logs so it seems to be connecting to wifi. I’m considering this a successful first test and I’ll keep playing with this more in the future.

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