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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Rude_End_3078 on 2025-07-20 19:14:52+00:00.
So far (and touch wood) everything that I've needed or wanted to automate has some existing solution that doesn't require extremely advanced approaches.
Now that's not to say everything I've done (or plan on doing) has a prebuilt solution. For example the water tank levels for my garden didn't have anything prebuilt that I could just slot in, so I had to order the sensor on Ali and then roll my own solution around that involving a Shelly Uni. And the thing is for that purpose the Shelly Uni is enough.
And it's roughly the same story for the inline temp reader in my pool. You know getting the temperature from "the pipe" and AC hardwired in. Same story had to order a temp sensor and DIYed a solution, but still that one used yet again a Shelly Uni.
Roughly the same thing with my garage door openers and sensors (magnetic reed switches) - those ones are even easier using a Shelly 1 Gen 4.
I'm a bit intimidated by the ESP32, but they are geared for IoT's so did any of you guys use them in your setup?