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<p>Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole.</p>
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<p>Plus some clever power solutions, cheap LED light strips, and a test drive of Project Off-Grid.</p>
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<p>We recorded our first ever live stream to accompany this where we flash an ESP8266 board in seconds using WLED and esptool. This can be found on <a href="https://youtu.be/aQyigSkcjMQ" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a>.</p><p><a href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53744" rel="payment">Support Self-Hosted</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/" title="Hass.io - Home Assistant" rel="nofollow">Hass.io - Home Assistant</a> — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.</li><li><a href="https://hacs.xyz/" title="Home Assistant Community Store" rel="nofollow">Home Assistant Community Store</a> — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Charging-Portable-Smartphones-MobileStudio/dp/B07PTNV3CF" title="Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging" rel="nofollow">Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging</a> — Portable Power Bank with USB Hub</li><li><a href="https://esphome.io/" title="ESPHome" rel="nofollow">ESPHome</a> — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.</li><li><a href="https://blog.ktz.me/home-assistant-smart-leds-using-wled-and-esp8266/" title="Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266" rel="nofollow">Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266</a> — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED" title="WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi!" rel="nofollow">WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi!</a> — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs!</li><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L0YvDVq_V17lLOeBc-H19np4wcSLqI6X5i6OAOGoaM/edit#gid=0" title="LED strips - Google Sheets" rel="nofollow">LED strips - Google Sheets</a>
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</li><li><a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/11/20/release-102/" title="0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor" rel="nofollow">0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/aQyigSkcjMQ" title="Self-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording" rel="nofollow">Self-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording</a> — DIY ESP device based LEDs just got a whole lot easier.</li></ul>
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