ESPHome on Jobatronic https://jobatronic.com/tags/esphome/ Recent content in ESPHome on Jobatronic Hugo en-us Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Smart Garage Lighting https://jobatronic.com/projects/garage-lighting/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jobatronic.com/projects/garage-lighting/ Motion-aware garage lighting with manual controls and an automatic timeout. A practical home-automation project: make the garage lights turn on when somebody walks in without making the system annoying.

The controller combines motion detection with a manual switch and an automatic timeout. The important design decision was keeping a physical control path available even if the network or home-automation server is offline.

Result

The system is simple enough to forget about, which is usually my definition of a successful automation project.

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