A HomeAssistant device controller built into a cute 1.28" dial.
- Control HomeAssistant devices:
- Lights (brightness, colour, on/off)
- Switches (on/off)
- More may be added if requested...
- Create timers which alert using the on-board buzzer
- Automatically identifies entities from your Home Assistant install - no per-device configuration required
- Clock with timezone and daylight savings time correction
- Little configuration required - authenticate in your browser with HomeAssistant
The software is only compatible with the M5Dial by M5Stack, but it would be relatively trivial to port it to other ESP32-based dials and knobs.
- Flash the latest release at [https://aeroniemi.github.io/circlehome/]
- Set the WiFi details using the tool (Improv Serial/WiFi)
- Visit the device URL to authenticate with your Home Assistant instance
- You're good to go!
The interface of CircleHome should be fairly intuitive, but here's a few tips:
- To return to the main menu, long press the dial.
- The repository contains all the details you'll need to build the project using Platform-IO.
- Install the Platform-IO plugin to Visual Studio Code.
- Clone the repository
- Open the VSCode workspace
- Open a Platform-IO terminal using
Ctrl+P - A number of VSCode tasks exist to generate images and other derivative assets - you may need to run those before uploading code.
- Run
pio run - Alternatively you can just run Platform-IO Build from the command palette
- To upload to a device, run Platform-IO Upload