Hi! I’m new to home assistant and I’m wondering what would be worth the cost. A lot of the “smart” appliances seem overly expensive and automating them would only save me a handful of minutes each day. I live in canada where power is cheap, so things that save power aren’t particulary useful. A way to open/close the windows and doors sounds useful and would save me the most time, but costs thousands. A way to keep track of what is in the fridge and propose recipes to avoid food waste would be nice but I’m not entirely sure how I would setup such a system.
Does anyone have ideas of worthwhile things I could setup that would be worth the cost?


Yeah.
Link to check devices supported by esphome (which make it easy to configure in home assistant) https://devices.esphome.io/
Esp8266 Wemos D1 mini https://a.aliexpress.com/_c3y0qeA3
DH22 Humidity and temperature sensor https://a.aliexpress.com/_c3XQ9FsF
Breadboard to connect them https://a.aliexpress.com/_c4kYJrWB
Cables to connect them https://a.aliexpress.com/_c2zuMp5d