Home Assistant

I have a doorbell camera in the UniFi Protect ecosystem. I wanted a way to show the doorbell stream on a low cost wall mounted display that integrates will with the existing home automations. I have a pair of these ESP32-S3 based screens, they are very common on aliexpress under the name “ESP32-S3 Development Board LVGL 4.0 inch 480*480 Smart Display”. I paid $40AUD or less for them. They consist of a front touch display connected to an ESP32-S3, with then an extra (optional) board that clips on the back that has a power supply and relay output. For my use case I generally dont use the relay so I can’t talk to how it performs. ...

This wasn’t going to become a blog post originally. Gamiee sent me some very nice nixie tubes recently, and as one does, I wanted a desk clock using them. Seeking the warm fuzzy feelings only the orange glow could give. Original Control Board Originally the plan was to use the cheap Aliexpress driver boards, and I picked up this one in a sale for sub $30AUD. These are fairly easy to wire up, however after writing it up it became obvious that this unit had features and settings but I couldn’t track down good documentation on how to enable them. Asking the seller didn’t result in anything either. ...