If you have a eufy scale, you can do this with no LLM needed - just set up an esp32 Bluetooth proxy, add it to home assistant, and then use the EufyLife integration someone already made. I did this recently with my scale to avoid having to sync it to my phone, go to the cloud, fetch data from the cloud, etc., and it's working fantastically. I have a little Home Assistant integration that pokes scale updates to a Python script running locally that provides a UI I like.

Huge fan of running it this way.

(Yesterday I ordered a more commercial, polished-looking esp32 Bluetooth proxy integrated into a smart plug - athome brand - but it's the same functionality, just in a nicer package than having a USB thing dangling from my outlet)

• dawnerd

  today at 12:52 PM

  I actually found this out by accident. I set up a BT proxy to capture my combustion thermometers and saw eufy show up as an option and was like wait what? Honestly surprised how open it is.

Very light on details, but did awaken me to the idea that you can setup HW projects like this without soldering. Bluetooth is practically ubiquitous, and ESPhome does offer this up in a palatable way

How can you write (or have AI write) such an article without also sharing the code? Now it’s just a pretty useless brag, “look what I built”.

• today at 12:05 PM

• SaberTail

  today at 12:37 PM

  If the AI wrote the article, and with no code, how do we know this even happened?

The interesting thing here is the opportunity to make a sdk for interfacing with the Withings hardware offline. This is the first public example I’ve seen of someone attempting that