The blinds communicate to [Toni]’s Home Assistant network using MQTT. All the software is available on the project’s GitHub repository, and the 3D-printed case design is posted on Thingiverse.

Since Home Assistant is my be-all-and-end-all service for managing my smart gadgets, I’ve paired my Raspberry Pi MQTT broker with the HASS instance to simplify automating my IoT paraphernalia.

When the engine is started, the ESP8266 is powered up and immediately connects to the WiFi network and pushes an MQTT message to Home Assistant.