Ten Days with RS-232 - Making My Offline LG TV a Little Smarter
After ten days of experimenting with RS-232 control on my offline LG CX, it didn’t replace infrared or HDMI-CEC–but it found a surprisingly useful place in my smart home.
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Aidan Maurin-Jones shares tools, automations, and thoughts on whatever’s interesting this week.
I Am Number 6
After days of troubleshooting cables, DB9 pinouts, TX/RX wiring, a MAX3232, LG service menus, and even my own debugging code, I finally got Home Assistant talking to my offline LG CX over RS-232–and became Number 6.
I Want to Be Number 6
My attempt to become the sixth active installation of Home Assistant’s new LG TV via Serial integration turned into an adventure involving ESPHome, a MAX3232, service menus, DB9 pinouts, a multimeter, and an LG CX that stubbornly refuses to talk back.
From Arduino to ESPHome: Building an External Component
Building my first ESPHome external component to make SwitchBot Curtains feel like native ESPHome devices.
Automating TP-Link Kasa Devices with Shortcuts
Using three clever Shortcuts and the Kasa cloud API, you can log in, list devices, and control TP-Link Kasa smart plugs and switches directly from Shortcuts—no Homebridge required.