There are several different paths to a smart home, and [Marcus] eventually settled on using ESPHome and ESP8266/ESP32 based devices to create a complete DIY smart home solution which covers his gar… ...

Since I had a spare ESP32 lying around, I tried building a smart dashboard that pulls metrics from the other smart devices in my home lab and outputs them to a screen.

Popular hardware for DIY Zigbee projects includes ESP32-C6, ESP32-H2, and Silicon Labs boards, which support custom sensors, ... offering a unified ecosystem for smart home automation.

Thanks to the ESP8266 and the ESP32, we’ve seen an explosion in DIY home automation projects recently. When it only takes $3 and a few lines of code to bring your gadgets onto the network, th… ...