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Reposting this from here from 2023, after I stumbled across it tonight and it hits hard.

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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Learning ESPHome has been the most liberating thing. Take back control of your home. Local first. Privacy respecting.

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future ... 🐰

Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe give https://nowsci.com/only-sensor a shot? I built the guides/schematics/models for ESPHome devices as a learning experience for myself.

@SkyNTP@lemmy.ml I felt the same way. Now I just keep making new things for it, currently on garage door opener, blinds opener, and may even automate turning on my DIY solder fume extractor.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Esphome is limiting though. Want to have a sensor that spawns a camera stream only on PIR detection, and then sleeps? Forget about it, those two will run in parallel, and the debug messages are terrible.

I find it more liberating to write in C, and then setup my own mqtt protocols when I want for HA to interact with

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I agree. A few years ago I wanted to activate a fan based on temperature in a server cabinet, and offer a REST and MQTT APIs (for HA). It was impossible with ESP Home for some reason, if you added the Bosch 280 sensor you couldn't use MQTT. Very arbitrary limitations.

It took me less than 2 hours to build it with an ESP32 + Arduino. It's all libraries that you just need to put together at this point, barely any logic at all.