ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
… Not only is 2026 the year of the smart home, but it's also time to make the swap to local-only devices too. …
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Aqara’s new thermostat wants to run your entire smart home
… On the hardware side, Aqara included an mmWave radar sensor, letting the thermostat detect presence more accurately than standard motion sensors. …
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
… What sold me was that every ESP32 device I built worked locally, without a cloud dependency. …