Bought a Wipro smart extension & started playing around with home automation using Home Assistant Finally 🤘 For the curious, most of Wipro's devices are apparently re-branded Tuya devices. So feel free to order one & use the smart life app for setup & connect to HA

Another one! Now the geyser switches on from 8 - 8:15 AM if its a weekday & my phone is at my home, So that there is always some hot water when I get up. Pretty nifty!. The geyser is connected to a 16A Wipro smart plug connected to Home Assistant which runs on my home server.

TIL, my typing speed is pretty .... shite

Really makes my day when people say the tools I built helped them!

me: damn, about 2000 emails in my inbox seems like a lot of clutter. I should clean it up. meanwhile my friend:

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