Integrating Daikin Madoka into Home Assistant: the definitive ESPHome solution!

The enchantment of a smart home with Home Assistant

Home Assistant is a true magician when it comes to transforming your home into an intelligent and responsive environment. By connecting all your devices, infinite doors open to automations you could only dream of before! While many appliances integrate with a simple “plug-and-play,” others, like Daikin Madoka systems, present a more intriguing challenge due to their exclusive Bluetooth connectivity.

Previous challenges: a winding road

In my quest for the perfect integration for Madoka devices, I explored several avenues. Online, you can find solutions ranging from custom HACS integrations to proposals based on specific hardware. Although I haven’t tested the hardware solutions, the HACS integration, while promising, often proved unstable, forcing me into frustrating reboots and reconnections.

Improve your office (or home) air with a DIY sensor and Home Assistant

The air we breathe at home or in the office is crucial for our well-being and productivity. Often, however, indoor air quality can be affected by factors such as excess carbon dioxide (CO2), which leads to drowsiness and difficulty concentrating. For a while, I looked for a solution to monitor the air in my home office, but commercial options were often expensive and not flexible enough to integrate with my Home Assistant setup.

Child control for Sonos speakers

TL;DR

Using an ESP32 and Home Assistant with ESPhome you can control Sonos speakers (or other media players) without smartphone application. This is my project to allow my daughter to manage the music in our home (whenever we want).

Intro

We are in the process of fixing up a house and it’s time to do some major cleaning among all the stuff we’ve accumulated. In a cleaning raid an old baby cassette recorder was discovered, unfortunately it is no longer working (I will get it working eventually). This find made us alert to the fact that our little girl can’t easily listen to music since it’s all streaming now and you need apps on your phone to listen to it. Not like it was in our day when we were young….