esphome – Just another Linux geek

5 April, 20205 April, 2020Fedora, FOSS, Tech

Custom WiFi enabled nightlight with ESPHome and Home Assistant

I built this custom night light for my kids as a fun little project. It’s pretty easy so thought someone else might be inspired to do something similar. Hardware The […]

31 March, 202010 October, 2020Fedora, FOSS

Defining home automation devices in YAML with ESPHome and Home Assistant, no programming required!

Having built the core of my own “dumb” smart home system, I have been working on making it smart these past few years. As I’ve written about previously, the smart […]

30 March, 202011 April, 2021Fedora, FOSS

Resolving mDNS across VLANs with Avahi on OpenWRT

mDNS, or multicast DNS, is a way to discover devices on your network at .local domain without any central DNS configuration (also known as ZeroConf and Bonjour, etc). Fedora Magazine […]