I’ve been on a bit of a quest recently to retrobodge smart home functionality into a 1930s house. This is the story of how I tried, failed and unexpectedly succeeded in building a custom presence detection sensor for Home Assistant. The midnight trip to the toilet presents a dilemma: do you stumble in the dark…
It all started a couple of years ago. I was recycling an old laptop – and I mean recycling, it was too old to be remotely useful even with a lightweight Linux distro. I always hate the process of generating e-waste, so I pondered what I could possibly do with it. Then I thought about…
