Small house, I use zigbee directly with the zbt1 and it’s great

I know some people really love home assistant, but not thaaaat much!

An esp controlling a linear actuator to either push the door open, or push against the latch locking it closed, or both.

It’s a config that lives in Esphome on your home assistant server. Esphome has a Web based editor with some syntax help. When you click update it compiles it for you and uploads it ota.

You can probably sample the data on the device at a much higher rate and send updates instantly if it’s over a certain threshold

I’ve got several of the AthomTech smart plugs, they run Esphome, and you can fork their firmware and modify it as you see fit. I’ve got one pinging a fairly unstable server and will power cycle it if it doesn’t get a response for 10min, all on device so it works without home assistant running.

Here’s it’s config, defaults to 10sec, but you can change that easily

github://athom-tech/athom-configs/athom-smart-plug-v2.yaml

Yeah the mic and speaker on the atom are OK if you are within 2 feet, beyond that they aren’t any good. This looks good

Yes I have tried with the tiny m5 voice hardware and it’s seriously useful. But the mic and speaker are so compromised that it only works within a few feet. I want something like the first gen Google Home device, that works from across the room, and doesn’t constantly get false positives

Yes, by looking in the DB or the data that’s federated as it comes through

I have a athom smart switch plugged between the wall and the washing machine just for power monitoring. When the power is above a certain level for thirty sec, then drops below a certain level for thirty sec. It announces over the Google home that the washing is done.

The free data source was cut off, there’s several replacements of varying quality depending on region. The met.no one is good for me.