Making a dumb doorbell smart using a Shelly 1 and Home Assistant
The Shelly 1 will allow you to keep your old doorbell and chime but will notify Home Assistant whenever someone is at the door.
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The Shelly 1 will allow you to keep your old doorbell and chime but will notify Home Assistant whenever someone is at the door.
The creator of today’s featured ESPHome project created a DIY bed presence detector using a couple of thin film pressure sensors hooked up to an ESP32.
A chair occupancy sensor might sound like a gimmick at first but there are some actually useful use-cases once you start to think about it.