https://thepotato.tech/tags/esphome/Recent content in Esphome on Neil HanlonHugoen-USTue, 28 Mar 2023 19:01:25 -0400https://thepotato.tech/posts/smarthome-soldering-iron-pinecil-homeassistant-esphome/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:01:25 -0400https://thepotato.tech/posts/smarthome-soldering-iron-pinecil-homeassistant-esphome/<p>About a year ago, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@wesdottoday">wesdottoday</a> told me to buy a Pinecil and, once they came back in stock before the holidays.. I did just that&hellip; Fast forward a couple months and I&rsquo;ve got a <a href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neil/blisp/">copr</a> for flashing the Pinecil&rsquo;s firmware (IronOS), and am spending my weekends playing around with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Home Assistant to automatically turn on my fan when I start tinkering at my desk, lest my lungs die from the fumes.</p>