I have just had a mad idea, just bought a cheap car’s instrument cluster with the aims of using each dial to display some kind of data, such as how much power is being consumed, from Home assistant and wondered if anyone had ever done this. Make a real dashboard!! To do this, I would need home assistant to be able to output it’s data say via a raspberrypi. Does anyone know if this can be done ?
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Sounds like a good ESPHome project. Depending on the vintage of the instrument cluster (and your proficiency), it might be a challenge. I assume anything newer isn’t going to be using simple analog signals as inputs.
There are plenty of DIY projects on hackaday for steampunk-style analog gauge displays for weather and other things. Here’s just a few examples: