You don’t need to spend a lot to enjoy the security and convenience a smart home can deliver, especially if you rely on Wi-Fi instead of a smart home hub.
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Olimex HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...
Can you? Probably. Should you? Probably not.
I programmed it with ESPHome, and it only took a few hours from start to finish.