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Ordio – Home Assistant Music Streamer

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A physical Spotify player: NFC disks, an OLED, and Home Assistant I wanted music my household could hold. Streaming is convenient to the point of being forgettable — you tap a name in a list and sound happens. So I built a slot reader: 3.5″ 3D-printed disks, each with an NFC tag inside and a … Read more

Home Assistant – ESP32-S3 Dashboard

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The Elecrow CrowPanel 5.0″ is a fantastic little ESP32-S3 based touchscreen display — 800×480 resolution, capacitive touch, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and 8MB of PSRAM. It’s ideal for a wall-mounted Home Assistant control panel. But getting it running smoothly with ESPHome? That took some work.