New ambient light sensor station: no more water damage

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

It has been a few months since my light sensor suffered a water event and I am re-building this project, so my automation projects can run again. I learned from past mistakes and this time hopefully we will do much better.

Home sensor board video: https://youtu.be/WzjfJQtedCA
Home sensor PCB: https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Home_Sensor_Board.html

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Chapters:
0:00 The history
2:52 Broken station
6:20 The new sensor
8:13 Sensor data
13:31 Build
16:13 Installation
18:58 ESPHome script
26:13 Outro