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Blinds/Shutters automation with Home Assistant

My apartment has the shutters/blinds controlled via a trio of wall-mounted button panels. Here's my experience of integrating them into Home Assistant for automation and remote control. Steps: Identify the control units Buy the remote unit or reverse engineer the control signals Build a firmware for NodeMCU (ESP8266) based on ESPHome Result I've kept the intrusion to a minimum so they can be reverted without any traces: Home-Assistant panel with the three blinds actions: Control Unit The button panels have Elero stamped on them so the first thing was to go to the manufacturer's website and search for a product:  https://www.elero.de/de/produkte/jalousiesteuerungen/ The closest match seemed to be Elero VarioTec, not sure at this point if it supports remote control or not (spoiler: it doesn't).

Android game automation - part 1

First: this is borderline immoral so don't ask for any source code or help. My friend got me into a repetitive Android game that I will not name here. Basically it's a different kind of Farmville (I assume) that requires you to mindlessly click 'animals' to 'farm' money from them. On top of that you have to also activate two type of farms in order to feed the animals and evolve them. Feeding is not a requirement, so it will only be done in the second iteration of this automation. As a rule of thumb any task that takes you at least 5 minutes every day for a year should be automated if it could be done in less than 20 hours.