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Home and appliances

Vacuums, washers, coffee machines and sleep trackers that stopped working when an app or server went away. These projects bring them back under local control.

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    Trifo Lucy local server

    Trifo Lucy robot vacuum · ai: claude

    The cloud went quiet, so an owner wrote a local server and browser UI. Cleaning, docking, suction, scheduling and status work.

    experimental repo

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    SmartThings washer driver

    Samsung WW10H9400EW washing machine · ai: claude

    The old app workflow was discontinued. The owner wrote a SmartThings Edge driver that talks to the washer locally through a compatible hub.

    public repo

  3. 011

    Hello Sense revival

    Sense orb + Sleep Pill · ai: claude

    Joseph Spurrier rebuilt a local stack for a dead sleep company's hardware: bedside orb, Sleep Pill and app, owner-run. Started from the company's own open-sourced code.

    public write-up

  4. 012

    Smarter Coffee for Home Assistant

    Smarter Coffee Gen 1 · ai: claude code

    Home Assistant integration with local control, status and Wi-Fi setup for a coffee machine whose app is obsolete.

    public repo

  5. 022

    Inkbird Bluetooth bridge

    Inkbird INT-12-BW / INT-14-BW meat thermometer + ESP32 · ai: claude

    Paul Faure documented his thermometer's Bluetooth protocol, including its authentication handshake, and built an ESPHome bridge that puts every probe and setting into Home Assistant.

    public repo

  6. 024

    EcoFlow DELTA 3 as a UPS

    EcoFlow DELTA 3 power station + Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W · ai: claude

    alanstrok made his power station act as a standard NUT UPS server over Bluetooth, so Unraid, Synology and other NUT clients shut down cleanly on low battery. No EcoFlow cloud.

    public repo

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    Norman shutters for Home Assistant

    Norman PerfectTilt motorised plantation shutters + Norman hub · ai: claude code

    Tom Wilkie built a Home Assistant integration and Python client for his shutters: open or closed, tilt angle and battery, with the hub found automatically on the network.

    public repo

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    Roborock Local Server

    Roborock robot vacuums (most models; Q7-class unsupported) · ai: claude (commits)

    Luke Lashley, who maintains the Roborock integration in Home Assistant, runs a copy of Roborock's cloud backend on your own network. Vacuums keep live maps and local control without the internet, and nothing has to be rooted or opened.

    public repo