Category Archives: Home Automation

Adding LD2410 Motion Sensor to Sonoff S26 Smart Plug running ESPHome

The HLK-LD2410C module is a human presence, distance and motion detection sensor using 24GHz millimeter wave radar. The boards I found are so small (22mm wide by 16mm high) that I wondered if I could add one to a wifi smart plug. That turned out to be easy, follow along for step by step instructions.

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FreePBX calling Home Assistant

Call Home Assistant from FreePBX

Release 2023.5 of Home Assistant introduced the new Voice over IP integration that enables talking to the HA voice assistant using a regular (analog) phone. The instructions currently only apply to the Grandstream HT801 and HT802 analog phone adapters. After some trial and error, I managed to call Home Assistant from a SIP phone registered on my FreePBX VoIP server. Continue reading for more details on how to configure this in FreePBX.

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