There are a few things that I’d like to know without having to open the app on my phone or heading over to my PC. To wit: I’d like to know if the mail has been delivered (so I can fetch it from the box) and I’d like to be reminded that the dishes need to be put away.
The particulars of these two things really don’t matter. (I’ll be glad to share my mail-has-been-delivered set-up and/or my monitor-the-dishes set-up if someone really wants to know.) What does matter is that I’d like a signal that shows these two things that is not predicated on opening Home Assistant; essentially a signal lamp that cues me on these two situations.
What I have currently is a combination of an LED panel light connected to a WiFi-controlled plug-in outlet. It works just fine, but it’s on the big-and-clunky side to have that whole assembly connected to a physical outlet. What I’d really prefer is a ZigBee-controlled battery-powered little panel.
I could see something of an embedded IOT controller with a small LED panel connected to it.
Any ideas on an inexpensive IOT controller and LED panel?
I think the sky is the limit, here.
You probably should refine your requirements for the “human” interface and go “Top-Down”, i.e. from you what you’d want towards the implementation details.
If you go DIY, the IoT controller will be ESP8266 or ESP32 unless your are looking for headaches
Thanks. That’s what I was thinking. Now if I could just find a cheap squarish LED panel.
Well, my only personal experience with DIY is a WLED light strip.
I guess you could just buy a strip, cut it to the number of addressable leds you need, then it’s just 3-4 wires to hook between the ESP and the strip, flash wled and you’re done.
Just be sure to use a 5V strip so that you have a single PSU to power both the ESP and the LEDS.
Any good?
Thanks. I just saw that. It should work (with the requisite reprogramming of the on-screen items).