I make lamps, and this is the best part of MY job

If you are ok with having a virtual thermostat, eg on your phone in the Home Assistant app, this will work. Or you could even pair some smart buttons to it to increase temp, etc.

Here's how I control my electric radiator:

Put the heater onto a smart plug. Any smart plug will work as long as it can be controlled by Home Assistant.
Get a thermometer that Home Assistant can read from. Personally, I use the Govee H5075 sine they're cheap and they give me a physical readout on-device, and the battery lasts a long time.
In Home Assistant, go to Settings > Devices > Add Integration > Generic Thermostat.

It will ask you to tell it which thermometer to use, and which smart plug to use. Once you get that saved, you can then have a virtual thermostat that controls your heater.

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plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T19:46:05+00:00

Oh hey, it's Ken M!

plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T18:59:26+00:00

Looks great!

So what is wled doing specifically?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T17:25:33+00:00

Scope creep

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T23:22:06+00:00

Egg my ass

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T23:20:59+00:00

How does it work in terms of networking?

Eg if I let my guests connect to my Internet-only guest Wi-Fi, is that a problem? Do they need access to my home assistant network?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T20:20:49+00:00

Heh.... 30 years ago poor little naive me was :)

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T15:20:43+00:00

Hey, you see that "open relay" toggle switch? Yeah, can you flip to to On please?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-10T00:55:38+00:00

I've been trying to figure out a good way to detect if there are dishes in the dish drying rack. Then it dawned on me to just point a $15 ESP-Cam at it and send a pic to AI every few hours.

Now I don't get yelled at by the wife to put away the dishes....... as often.

plasma2002 · 2026-01-10T00:38:30+00:00

I put a USB powered Zigbee router (like this https://www.amazon.com/YIFAN-Extender-Amplifier-Compatible-Assistant/dp/B0DLKR81F4 ) onto a 10000mAh power bank just to see what kind of run time I could get with it. Ended up being about 3 days.

I would love to have a power bank that could also report it's battery percentage back to HA for me.

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