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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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It's already 25DegC in my home office.

The best cooling automation I have so far is to turn the fan on when it's 25 for >5mins.

Is there a nice zigbee / ESP32 evaporation cooler that I can enjoying setting up with HA?

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[–] ayyy 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Oh, my other advice is definitely buy the bacteriostatic water additive, because otherwise you will have to clean all the wet parts of the machine with hot soapy water every single week to keep yourself healthy.

And my other other advice is to get the absolute dumbest unit possible that can be turned on and off with a knob/switch. Just set it to on and plug it into a smart plug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Good points.

That's what I'm doing for the winter: dumb dehumidifier on smart socket. HA measures the humidity and turns it on / off.

I was hoping for something that could cool and report back what it was doing to HA, but I think I'll have to go with the same approach as the dehumidifier.