HA + ESPhome automated lights

With this project I want to tackle;

- Household limitations/frustrations- Spiking prices of electricity- Unused valuable 18650 batteries

So in our hall the light switches are placed in a centered spot in the hall so pretty unusefull during the night cause then we need to use our phone to get safe to the toilet.

And now and then we turn the hall lights on, get stuff from the storage room to the kichten en visa versa but then forget to turn the light's out... or at least I forget it mostly..

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So I recently started to work with Home assistant. And in the proces of learning more about it I discovered ESPhome. While looking at it it looked to me that with the combination of the 2 it is possible to make cheap automated lights on a battery.

When making more of these they can interact with eachother via Home Assistant.

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THIS IS NOT A ENDPRODUCT

I just came up with it yesterday so it is still rudimentary but I'm already glad that I could make some kind of prototype with the parts i've already at home.

So in the current state is the ESP fully operational and intigrated in HA and has the following in functionality;

• PIR sensor to detect motionLED that lights up after motion is detected
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NEXT UP:

• Find out what LED I can power with 3.3v and look how to get more power to the led for more lumen
• Try to design a case for the parts to fit in.
• Try to find out the runtime of the set on 1*18650 battery