Capyboard, ESP32 Development Board for Education by emiler

Capyboard is an ESP32 development board built to accept individual custom-made modules. The board is created primarily for use in education, where you want to focus on embedded programming instead of spending time with connecting cables and parts on a breadboard, as you would with Arduino and other such devices. The board is not limited only to education and it can be used to build, for instance, a very powerful internal meteo-station and so on.

• github.com/realcharmer/capyboard
• github.com/realcharmer/capyboard-starter
• github.com/realcharmer/capyboard-docs
• github.com/realcharmer/capyboard-examples
• docs.capyboard.dev

Hack Week 25

My plan is to create a new revision of the board with updated dimensions and possibly even use a new ESP32 with Zigbee/Thread support. I also want to create an extensive library of example projects and expand the documentation. It would be nice to also design additional modules, such as multiplexer or an environment module.

Goals

• Implement changes to a new board revision
• Design additional modules
• Expand documentation and examples
• Migrate documentation backend from MkDocs to Zensical

Hack Week 24

I created a new motherboard revision after testing my previous prototype, as well as a light module. This project was also a part of my master's thesis, which was defended successfully.

Goals

• Finish testing of a new prototype
• Publish source files
• Documentation completion
• Finish writing thesis

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Expand home assistant support for Freebox / Iliadbox modem by fcrozat

Description

My ISP (Free) fiber modem (Freebox) has a pretty rich API to control and monitor it.

It is currently supported in Home Assistant but not to the full extend of the available API, including additional Wifi repeaters.

Goals

Adding support for Wifi repeaters linked to the ISP modem in Home Assistant.

Resources

https://dev.freebox.fr/sdk/os/ (old version of the API) the latest version of the api is only available from the modem webUI atm

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Smart-Home Reverse Engineering and Automation by pstivanin

Description

This project focuses on expanding smart-home automation by reverse-engineering several closed systems, developing missing integrations, and unifying them into a fully automated Home Assistant environment. The work includes protocol analysis, custom API design, and deep automation logic, combined with improvements to monitoring and camera workflows. The outcome will be a coherent ecosystem with enhanced control, transparency, and automation for heating, circulation, security, and access systems.

Goals

CMV

• Reverse engineer UTEK RC-TOP2 modbus connect
• Write a custom integration for home assistant
• Add a dashboard for controlling the machine, schedules, power, etc

Samsung EHS

• Add the Elfin-EW11 to the hydronic module (F1/F2)
• Install the EHS integration and set it up
• Add automation and dashboards for anti-legionella, temperatures, COP, etc

Grundfos Recirculation Pump

• Disassemble the pump and add the custom PCB
• Write ESPHome firmware
• Integrate the pump into HA with simple and advanced automation modes (e.g. shower, anti-legionella, etc)

Dahua Event Proxy Server

• Test and deploy the code

Camera Dashboard

• Show IVS events (tripwire, intrusion, SMD).

External Gate Automation

• Add two Shelly relays (pedestrian + full-open).
• Implement arrival automation, remote access, and safety timers.

Extra goals

• Look into influxdb and grafana for storing long term data like PV
• Look into an outdoor air quality monitor so that I can better control my CMV

Done

Garage Door Automation

• Add a Shelly relay for control
• Add optional open/close detection.
• Implement routines such as auto-close, geofence open, timeout warning.

Camera Dashboard

• Add WebRTC real-time feeds.

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