When it is working, this is a handheld remote for Home Assistant that lives beside the sofa. The dashboard is split into four tabs: lights, LED zones, TV control and power monitoring. The lights page gives each lamp its own toggle plus one-tap all-on and all-off buttons, the LED page brings zone selection, a colour palette and a brightness slider, and the TV page mirrors a classic remote with directional keys, volume, menu, playback and home.
The hardware is tidy. Inside a dark grey printed shell with brass inserts sit a 2.8-inch screen from Freenove with capacitive touch, a 1000 mAh cell and a Qi receiving coil. A MagSafe magnet lets the unit snap onto a wall charger next to the sofa, and the maker notes that makes it easy to grab. All parts came from Amazon for speed, and the whole thing lands under 30 euros. Updates go out over the air.
Two details stand out to me. Deep sleep pushes battery life to 10 to 14 days, and it can be paused in the settings so an update can land. The maker also went capacitive rather than resistive, which in my view is the right call for a device that guests without the app will pick up.
It is not finished. The printed prototype still needs a lot of fine-tuning on shape and mounting points, and the battery is meant to be refitted so the shell can shrink. There is no accelerometer either, so shaking it only produces a rattle. The maker calls the current design questionable but admits the runtime is huge. For revision 0.0.0.1, that is a strong start.