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Actually I did exactly that :) I use ESPHome to control a gas boiler which heats my home. It's not without problems and required a lot of tinkering, but after the initial phase it …

Maintainability is a concern that I haven’t figured out yet :) Right now my plan is to replace my DIY thermostat with off the shelf device suitable for my boiler when we sell the h…

After I finished debugging the prototype, it required literally zero maintenance throughout the winter. Actually we were not living at the house at all, contractors doing remodelli…

Yes, safety and robustness were my primary concerns while designing this project. This house is more like a vacation home, and we don’t live there permanently. So my main goal is b…

Thanks for the context! I didn't research OpenTherm much, since my boiler is one of the most basic models on the market. It supports just the bare minimum from V2 spec, but it work…

I completely agree, using ESPHome beats writing firmware from scratch, even though lots of Arduino libraries are available. But the flip side is that ESPHome is in active developme…

Thank you for the suggestion! I will try to add some plots if data from winter months is still available in Home Assistant. Based on my observations during winter, room temperature…

This is actually a less creepy kinda useful application of face recognition (not taking into account actual face recognition for surveillance which is grossly unethical). The quest…

It looks nice, I think I'm going to give it a try. But how is it different from Mermaid.js?

Actually, I completely agree on this one. Mysterious guy in a hoodie hacking your bank account while you enjoy your frappuchino waiting for a flight is much more easy to believe th…