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The AI built my home remote in half an hour

He had wanted a small Home Assistant remote on an old M5Paper eInk module for 3 years and never built it. The AI did it in half an hour, and the remote now pulls up all his rooms and shows the sensors and buttons he tagged as Remote.

How it works

  1. He asks the AI to build a Home Assistant remote on his old M5Paper eInk module
  2. The AI builds it in half an hour
  3. The remote shows all his rooms plus the sensors and buttons he tagged as Remote

Why it’s worth knowing

A home remote he had put off for 3 years took the AI half an hour, screen and all, on an old eInk module.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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