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Home Automation

User interface with main menu, light controls for multiple rooms and vacuum cleaner

My extensive home automation system provides small quality of life improvements in our house. All systems and components run locally on my own servers, and there are no cloud components.

Examples of automation in use:

• My room lights gently start to turn on before my alarm clock to wake me up.
• Curtains open and close automatically based on my alarm clock
• During dark months, small low power lights provide light to move around the house. Brightness is automatically controlled based on the sun and time but can be overridden by switches.
• Air conditioning in each room is controlled intelligently based on multiple conditions and preferences set by users.

User interface for all air conditioning units and temperatures from those rooms

Grafana displaying temperatures, absolute humidities and internet speed from a two year period

User interface displaying energy usage of geothermal heat pump and historical temperature in all bedrooms

First generation of my self designed multi channel LED dimmer being installed

One of my first light controllers being replaced with a new wifi model. The original system was based on a RTC clock and a brightness sensor in a window

Two of my latest generation six channel LED dimmers being built. See MikkoTervala/esp32-dimmer

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