AtHeartEngineer

Yep, fallbacks are important

nice! ya mmwave is dope!!

genuinely got a laugh out of me lol, unexpected response

I appreciate it! I have one setup already, mine decides whether to circulate the air in the house or vent the bathroom fan depending on the humidity in the rest of the house too.

I like the idea/practice of “edge devices” where each device has its own responsibilities and autonomy to some extent, with home assistant acting as an overseer. if HA goes down, most of my house still works fine/has fallbacks. Need that wife approval factor lol. one time she couldn’t turn off the lights while I was out of town, lol she was a little pissed

Ya the basic thing isn’t that difficult. I am adding other air quality sensors and I want to be able to control air exchange, humidifier, and exterior vents (bathroom fan). And I want it to be a bit more advanced/energy efficient vs a dumb pid loop. Also, it should operate if home assistant goes down.

My new line is “it needs to be flashable”. I just got rid of my Google nest for a Honeywell zwave one while I design an esp32 based one.

a lot of them have BLE trackers, I can track my dogs throughout the house

mmwave sensor, humidity sensor, and/or monitoring your water heater power usage. any of those 2 should work.

I am actively working on a bunch of ML algorithms for home assistant for exactly this type of thing, detecting ‘activity’ per room.

lol I have the same tortillas dog blanket, it’s a good one

hmm, I think it should still work through glass, it works through drywall.

if/when you can afford it, mmwave precense sensors are way better, mine can see me through the shower curtain standing still