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Keurig ESPHome UART Bridge
(thelemmy.club)
Ever wanted to control a Keurig (K-Supreme, others may be possible with YOUR help! :D) via Home Assistant?
Well now ya can!!...if you solder in an ESP32 and run ESPHome on it to essentially turn it into a wireless UART bridge :)
Worked with Claude (sorry if that's not cool...feel free to ignore) to RE the J2 port on a K-Smart and a K-Supreme (had the K-Smart first before moving to a K-Supreme because I accidentally tore a PCB trace) and get the brewer to both send and receive useful information over ESPHome to Home Assistant!
Details here: https://github.com/gitman-101111/bye-keuri-ous
Enjoy!! :D
That sounds so futuristic, and in a good way due to being completely local. Super cool. Also appreciate the mention of re-usabe pods.
Now, if only you could figure out how to have it make good coffee.*
*This is mostly intended as a joke, if you like the coffee it makes, great! Personally, I've only had bad, awful, bitter experiences with friend's Kuriegs, but hey, maybe there's a way to have them make good coffee as well that I'm not aware of. This does make we want to implement this with a bean-to-cup auto-brewer, but I'm thinking that'd be a helluva lot more complicated.