DIY smart home from a 100-year-old building

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A hands-on report on building a DIY smart-home retrofit in a 100-year-old building, showing concrete sensor and actuator designs, integration for data collection and environment control, all without modifying the building fabric. Covers hardware evolution, tool and library choices over time, common early failures, and a live demo of the current, frequently changing setup; technologies mentioned include MQTT, ESPHome, motionEye and Arduino.

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1. 0:00Project intro
2. 1:52100-year-old building
3. 3:19Affordable sensors
4. 6:13Radar sensors
5. 8:01Motion detection
6. 10:37DIY automation
7. 13:34Sensors and assistant
8. 16:28Community resources
9. 19:01Power management
10. 21:11Bluetooth beacons
11. 22:55Automating lights
12. 24:52Q&A

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