Electronic "Working Remotely" Sign
Electronic "Working Remotely" Sign
This may be the completely wrong place to be asking. But, has anyone ever seen any sort of DIY LED sign, remotely configurable sort of project? I'm thinking a sign that can sit on my desk at the office that if I end up working remotely that day I can update it to reflect that to my coworkers (I get a lot of visitors per day from different departments asking questions) so they know they can still contact me via Teams? Apologies if this isn't the right place for this.
I use home assistant with a smart bulb. I had it setup to scrape my Teams availability but cyber security didn't like that so currently I just toggle a switch on my phone in home assistant that changes the color of a light in the hall. Still want to automate it somehow but it works ok. I may try to her home assistant to detect when my headphones are on and use that to trigger the light or just replicate my work calendar and then use it as a trigger.
2through HACS you can set up the HASS agent for your pc. Work probably won't want it on their computuer, but if you run teams/slack on your home pc, you can configure sensors for all kinds of stuff. including a powershell script result. or an active process. You can configure it to when teams/slack is running on your PC during work hours, Your remote working light turns on. or something like that.
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Seen loads. Tried Googling it? Multiple ways to do this, some sort of hobby/DIY platform (Arduino, ESP, PiZero etc) and a connected display. Just have a browse round SparkFun?
1I'd go for an ESP8266/ESP32 with a telegram bot and LED (based sign) hanging off it. Just send a msg on telegram to turn it on/off.
That having been said loads of ways to trigger the sign status - it could poll a website to see what status it should display and you have a mechanism of updating that status yadda yadda yadda.
Note that those little chips needs wifi so you'd need to be able to connect it to wifi and have it get public internet access (or whatever you decide to control it). Loads of posts/youtube exist about driving WS2812 LEDs, or making your own DIY LED 'neon' signs. Cool little projects.
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