Remote start is what I want personally. Timers get 90% of the way there, but if you want to run your machine when power is cheap, needs a bit more granularity. Also, end notification is one thing, but getting a “remaining time” status is also useful for the particularly lazy among us :)
Probably could, but thats messy and out of reach for most of the general public. I’d consider myself capable, and I still haven’t done it despite wanting to.
I’d settle for appliances providing a standardised port for control/monitoring, that you can plug in your own ESP32 controller. Harder to sell to the general public.
Rheeme Econet devices do this. They have an app to control them, but there’s also a diagnostic port that exposes everything in the app and a lot more. There’s an esp32 project that connects to the port and brings all of that into Home Assistant, no app or wifi needed.
I’ve thought about soldering one to some of the indicator leds and the start button, but that would require a lot of disassembly that I couldn’t bother with yet.
Remote start is what I want personally. Timers get 90% of the way there, but if you want to run your machine when power is cheap, needs a bit more granularity. Also, end notification is one thing, but getting a “remaining time” status is also useful for the particularly lazy among us :)
Ah, my power isn’t cheaper at certain times, so I didn’t think of that. I wonder if you could control and monitor all of it with an ESP32.
Probably could, but thats messy and out of reach for most of the general public. I’d consider myself capable, and I still haven’t done it despite wanting to.
I’d settle for appliances providing a standardised port for control/monitoring, that you can plug in your own ESP32 controller. Harder to sell to the general public.
Rheeme Econet devices do this. They have an app to control them, but there’s also a diagnostic port that exposes everything in the app and a lot more. There’s an esp32 project that connects to the port and brings all of that into Home Assistant, no app or wifi needed.
Thats awesome, will keep that in mind for the next upgrade.
While we are shouting out cool projects, for Mitsubishi electric aircon: https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome
There is also one for daiken, but I haven’t directly tried it.
I’ve thought about soldering one to some of the indicator leds and the start button, but that would require a lot of disassembly that I couldn’t bother with yet.