It is easy, it is economical, and it will help you save money heating your home!
The project explained briefly
Smart Thermostat Android app
If you have an old smartphone or tablet forgotten in a drawer, a box or a dark corner, you can recycle it and use build a Wifi Smart Thermostat!
The main actor of this project is the Smart Thermostat Android App. It is designed to control a home heating system, and works with devices as old as Android 4.4. The app is available in the Play Store.
Smart Thermostat running on an old Nexus 7 (2012)
The temperature sensor
The second piece of this project is the temperature / humidity sensor. We are working to support different temperature sensors, but at this moment you will need an ESP32 microcontroller, and a DHT temperature sensor.
The sensor will read the temperature and humidity of your home / room, and serve this information to the thermostat. You can have multiple temperature sensors if you want (for example, one for each room of your house).
A DHT11 Temperature and humidity sensor connected to an ESP32 microcontroller .
The relay
Of course, you will need something to turn on and off your home heating system (for example, your boiler).
For that you will need an ESP32 microcontroller and a High Level Triggered relay will do the work!
All this components are very cheap, and easy to configure.
Two Channel High Level Relay connected to an ESP32 board
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