[Share Your Own Ideas] Welcome to share your Home Assistant ideas with Seeed Studio!

[MatthewJeffson]

Overview

• We encourage you to share your thoughts regarding how to utilize Home Assistant and our products to come up with interesting ideas.
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• Whether you have a "solution-based" prototype, a deployable resolution, or just an interesting project idea, we want to hear from you.
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[djairjr]

Matthew, once HomeAssistant Green gets here, I'm thinking about redoing my home alarm with it. To do this, I must use some XIAO ESP32_C3 with deep sleep and reed switches to replace the current system, which works via radio and 12v batteries. I haven't figured out how to do it yet, but I'm thinking about also creating a password and RFID card system to grant access.

[Pixeldieb]

One of the huge topics for Homeassistant is the easier integration of LoRaWAN Sensors and the needed dashboards.

In our daily work we noticed, that clients are obviously only problem focussed and often dont care deeply for how data gets into an application. Meaning, that the whole setup for LoRaWAN Sensors will need to get even easier with less and less steps to accomodate more people embracing it as a technology.

[quietCoder500]

If I could get two or three XIAO ESP32S3 for Meshtastic & LoRa Kits plus antennas, than I could try and connect Home Assistant with Meshtastic. Then, you could view the mesh's messages on Home Assistant. Also with it connected to HA, you unlock so much data. My project idea is that one Meshtastic XIAO would connect to the HA server and people in the mesh could send messages to Home Assistant's Assist and receive a response. This would be great for kids, for places with poor cellular coverage, or just as a cool project.

This would also work great if I could get a SenseCAP Card Tracker T1000-E and a Wio Tracker 1110 Dev Kit for Meshtastic. With the SenseCAP Card Tracker T1000-E, you could have applications like notifying parents when a child reaches school or tracking pets from the Home Assistant app.

One more idea, when interfaced with the sensecap watcher, you could place the watcher anywhere in lora range with an offline model running and get alerts for all Meshtastic and home Assistant users.

[quietCoder500]

I found some more info regarding my previous comment. Metastatic does support tons of Meshtastic features in Home Assistant. This means that everything I said before will work really well and be easy for others to copy. There is a warning, however, that NRF devices are not supported. I think that only means that a NRF device will not connect directly to HA, but you can still receive messages from those devices through the mesh.

[MatthewJeffson]

Hi! @quietCoder500 Nice to meet you! By the way, will you the one who publish this project idea? We got it from our official contributor side: https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/contributors/

[quietCoder500]

Hi @MatthewJeffson, that was my post on the contributor's page, and thanks for adding my idea as a project.