have a cat isolated for now and a local camera in the room set to record to a #RaspberryPi, but got tired of it recording me when I go in the room to give the cat medicine or just watch TV
I already had a #HomeAssistant layout to send the HTTP commands to the camera to toggle motion detection, but got tired of having to make sure I had my phone and also remembering to do it.
So I rigged up an #ESP32s2 (which have capacitive touch GPIO natively) with a little tinfoil touch pad and made an #Arduino sketch to detect a press on the "button", send the web call, and toggle the detection on and off (using the built in LED to display the status: on for recording, off for no alarms)
Extra long USB-C cord and some painter's tape to stick the pad to the wall and ta-da! We now can toggle recording before entering the room and when leaving it.
I love these little boards so much
#ESP32