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Published inSep 2023
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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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Using the five-zone temperature sensor in Home Assistant

When I first created this temperature logger application, I was able to use a configuration in Tasmota to automatically send data to Home Assistant independent of the Tasmota integration. This was done using the setoption19 1 command in the Tasmota console. This option was deprecated, and it is not available in the new Tasmota installations anymore. The alternative solution for this issue is to add the temperature sensors manually in Home Assistant.

Tasmota reports the sensors data using an MQTT JSON message in the following format:

tele/ESP32_TEMPERATURE_HUB/SENSOR = {"Time":"2023-05-15T06:15:49","ATC19f133":{"mac":"a4c13819f133","Temperature":25.7,"Humidity":30.0,"DewPoint":6.8,"Battery":43,"RSSI":-82},"ATC969ab4":{"mac":"a4c138969ab4","Temperature":24.6,"Humidity":41.1...
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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801815291

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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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