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Seems like an ESP can do damn near anything these days. They are like the new arduino. When a 555 would be enough, why not just use a ESP?

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>If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so it’s no surprise that this “Mr Christmas” jukebox caught the eye of [Roberts Retro]. But while the holiday gadget might have been mildly entertaining in its stock configuration, he quickly realized that what it really needed was an ESP32 retrofit. After all, what good are all those buttons and LEDs if you can’t bend them to your will?

Seems like an ESP can do damn near anything these days. They are like the new arduino. When a 555 would be enough, why not just use a ESP? @stupidbird Archive: https://archive.today/LsU7x From the post: >>If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with buttons is one that’s covered in LEDs — so it’s no surprise that this “Mr Christmas” jukebox caught the eye of [Roberts Retro]. But while the holiday gadget might have been mildly entertaining in its stock configuration, he quickly realized that what it really needed was an ESP32 retrofit. After all, what good are all those buttons and LEDs if you can’t bend them to your will?

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Wow, yeah, I could see why that would be a PITA but I have a garage door opener that is also attached to my home assistant but via 2.4g wifi.

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For all the technology I have around here, I refuse to connect any appliance to wifi. I guess I'm a luddite...

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Not at all. I just refuse to have anything connect to something outside of my house/control. This thing only talks on my local network on a network/subnet/vLAN that cannot talk to the outside world.

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Fair enough. WiFi is just such a mess around here, there's 80+ networks on the air - at least that's what I can usually see with a good scan with vistumbler. I have to drop down to Wireless-G before anything works, even that's hard to handle sometimes.