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multipolygonon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

AC is super easy with ESPHome, eg:

https://esphome.io/components/climate/climate_ir.html

TV also:

https://esphome.io/components/remote_transmitter.html

multipolygonon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

Very very cool, especially from the angle of unobtrusive, ambient technology (aka anti-doom-scrolling)

multipolygonon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

Thanks! My RFID project there is probably very over-complicated compared to a "proper" audio setup like you describe. Really all you would need is a Raspberry Pi to host a MQTT server and play a stream from Spotify (or similar). You could then use ESPHome as a simple RFID-to-MQTT reader, which would be extremely simple with ESPHome and is the kind of project that ESPHome makes beautifully and laughably simple!

multipolygonon Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware

Hi, Ive made an e-paper wrist watch:

https://github.com/multipolygon/esphome-for-watchy/blob/main...

and an RFID-card mp3-player music box for a toddler:

https://blog22.multipolygon.net/rfid-music-box.html