Comment by nsarrazin
13 hours ago
Personally it made it very easy to build custom sensors/actuators for my Home Assistant setup. I have a folder with a bunch of esphome configs and just point Claude Code at it and tell it to add new entries for the stuff that I need, it's really good at that it can even write drivers for specific sensors autonomously. Granted you still need to do the wiring/soldering by hand (for now!)
Just around the home I have:
- a board that captures the audio output from my vinyl player and streams it on my LAN (so I can play my records on speakers across the house)
- one esp32 in each of my DIY speakers around the house driving the DAC+amplifier
- smart plant sensors that measure soil humidity, temperature, etc.
- a camera inside of a bird house, solar powered
- a 8x8 lidar ToF distance measurement board for detecting sleep phase
I'm curious about the sleep phase detection. What kind of data can you extract from the array beyond body movement? Do you find it better reflects how you feel than a wearable?
> smart plant sensors that measure soil humidity, temperature, etc.
Hah, that was one of my first projects long time ago before ESP32s even existed (PIC FTW!). Feels like this is one of those rights of passage projects for many people.
How do you deal with the audio latency / missed packets / etc?