Happy Holidays - Favorite Smart Home Gadget

Hey nerds 🤓

This blog now has over 400 Members and I wanted to thank you all and wish you nothing but the best for the next year. 🙏 I hope you have/had a wonderful time for Christmas and enjoy the holidays over New Year's Eve. 🎆

My best smart home gadget

I wanted to share my best home automation gadget with you. It is hands down the two DREAME L10s Pro Ultra! We have 2, one for each floor; these things are a time saver. It is mind-blowing not to use this tech anymore.
Even the mopping is very good.

I bought the first one in November 2023 for 729,90 Euros. I was so happy with this device that I bought a second one in August 2024 for 366 Euro (Factory seconds).

You can get one of these in Germany for 396 Euros brand new. That is a no-brainer for me! 🧠

If you want to build this as well, here are the parts I used. To be transparent: I get a small commission from these links.

• DREAME L10s Pro Ultra

• DREAME L10s Pro Ultra

Flashed both with Valetudo because I am not a fan of China Cloud devices in my home. It is a bit scary and you also need a small PCB and you can brick your device. Please do your research.

This device vacuums and mops both floors perfectly. I use an Aqara switch near the door. When we go out we can hit it once for vacuuming both floors and hit it twice for vacuuming + mopping both floors. 🏠

I also got a Home Buttons. A small E-Paper device. The kitchen sink symbol is for just vacuuming and mopping only the kitchen. It is really handy after a heavy cooking session! 🧑‍🍳

The game controller 🎮 symbol is for turning on my gaming PC upstairs with my PokyPow. Sometimes a friend asked me for a small gaming session after dinner. I say yes and push that button. While cleaning I get the latest updates for my game and everything is up and running when I go upstairs and sit down.

If you want a PokyPow, just sign up, we are almost at our goal of 200 people 😉

PokyPow

Remotely power and monitor your computer with Home Assistant

Crowd Supply

Anyways.

My next project - automatically clean around the cat litter box

I want to let my vacuum automatically vacuum when my cat uses the cat litter box. I already built a scale with ESPHome and those HX711 and the CLW1001 sensors on a piece of wood. I have to admit, those sensors were bought in 2018 and I never used them. 😅 I plan to check if a weight change has happened (the cat entered the litter box) and then the vacuum robot will clean up the litter lying around. Let's see how it will work out.

What are you working on?

What is your best smart home device? Anything that brings you joy or saves a huge amount of work?

I am curious, please let me know in the comments below.
And enjoy the rest of the holidays and see you next year! 🍾