Which direction to take to automate lights in an old house

Good time to ‘disconnect’ from the :earth_africa: and :ski:!

The esp-world is very interesting, from Tasmota to ESPHome to native code with Arduino libs, ESP libs or MicroPython allows creating some interesting solutions.

While I am still debating the safety of this board in ‘production’ use, I am finding it very interesting. A mains powered esp32 in a form factor that fits in a USA wall box for USD 9 with shipping cost. You might try a couple, delivery was under 2 weeks to USA. I can experiment with attaching stuff to it with it powered by low voltage and disconnected from mains using a usb serial programmer and then when I have something working, disconnect from usb and computer and power with mains (then can change code using OTA updates).

If you get your press working, queue me up for a tee-shirt :tshirt::grinning:

I’m interested to hear your experience with the AVATTO no-neutral solution, I have been experimenting and finding some mixed results:

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