CircleHome: Home Assistant enabled IoT UI for M5Dial

A HomeAssistant device controller built into a cute 1.28" dial.

Features

• Control HomeAssistant devices:
  • Lights (brightness, colour, on/off)
  • Switches (on/off)
  • More may be added if requested...
• Create timers which alert using the on-board buzzer
• Automatically identifies entities from your Home Assistant install - no per-device configuration required
• Clock with timezone and daylight savings time correction
• Little configuration required - authenticate in your browser with HomeAssistant

Installation

The software is only compatible with the M5Dial by M5Stack, but it would be relatively trivial to port it to other ESP32-based dials and knobs.

• Flash the latest release at [https://aeroniemi.github.io/circlehome/]
• Set the WiFi details using the tool (Improv Serial/WiFi)
• Visit the device URL to authenticate with your Home Assistant instance
• You're good to go!

Operation

The interface of CircleHome should be fairly intuitive, but here's a few tips:

• To return to the main menu, long press the dial.

Building

• The repository contains all the details you'll need to build the project using Platform-IO.
  • Install the Platform-IO plugin to Visual Studio Code.
  • Clone the repository
  • Open the VSCode workspace
  • Open a Platform-IO terminal using Ctrl+P
  • A number of VSCode tasks exist to generate images and other derivative assets - you may need to run those before uploading code.
  • Run pio run
  • Alternatively you can just run Platform-IO Build from the command palette
  • To upload to a device, run Platform-IO Upload