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+    <a href="/blog/2016/08/03/laundry-automation-update/">Laundry Sensors with NodeMCU and Home Assistant</a>
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+    <time datetime="2016-08-03T17:22:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> August 2, 2016</time>
+    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Nolan Gilley</span>
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+    <p><em>This is a guest post by Home Assistant user and contributor <a href="https://github.com/nkgilley">Nolan Gilley</a>.</em></p>
+<p>Today I’ll show you how I used Home Assistant, a NodeMCU (ESP8266), and a couple of accelerometers to automate our laundry room.  This is a rewrite of an <a href="https://home-assistant.io/blog/2015/08/26/laundry-automation-with-moteino-mqtt-and-home-assistant/">old post</a> where I did the same thing using a Moteino &amp; Raspberry Pi.  This version only requires a NodeMCU.</p>
+<p>We have an older washer and dryer which doesn’t have any form of notification when cycles complete.  Home Assistant was the obvious solution, I just needed to create sensors for the washer and dryer.  I tried using sound sensors but found them unreliable.  I ended up using an accelerometer attached to the back of each appliance.  I also added magnetic reed switches on the doors of the washer and dryer to detect whether they’re open or closed.  I connected the accelerometers and reed switches to an NodeMCU which will relay the data to my MQTT broker.</p>
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-    <a href="/blog/2016/06/13/home-assistant-at-pycon-2016/">Home Assistant at PyCon 2016</a>
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-    <time datetime="2016-06-13T01:06:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> June 13, 2016</time>
-    <span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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-    <p>It’s been already almost two weeks ago that a few of the Home Assistant developers headed towards Portland for <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2016/">PyCon 2016</a> - the conference about everything Python. We were there to learn all the nifty tricks to make our code better but most of all, to talk Home Automation.</p>
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-  Couple of Home Assistant devs. Left to right: <a href="https://github.com/balloob/">Paulus (@balloob)</a>, <a href="https://github.com/infamy/">Alex (@infamy)</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rmkraus/">Ryan (@rmkraus)</a>.
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-<p>On Monday I (Paulus) gave a presentation about Home Assistant to an audience of over 400 people! It was a bit scary at first but after a couple of minutes it went all great including some great questions afterwards. Slides can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F1pGOoSf0dD79Dl5dgys0ll7xiuIA4XiQeNeJ-xlqMg/edit">here</a> and the talk is embedded right below:</p>
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-<p>One of the things that really impressed me was the amount of people that approached us to tell how they love Home Assistant, how it has replaced their previous solution, how they enjoyed contributing to Home Assistant and how helpful our community is. It makes me proud of Home Assistant and especially our community.</p>
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