Campsite Automation
Campsite Automation
The campsite is a rolling homelab. A MikroTik router, a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant, and a growing pile of consumer devices whose “smart” features hide behind a cloud app — until I take them apart and wire them into HA on the local network instead. These are the reverse-engineering writeups.
- Golf Cart BMS — reading a LiFePO₄ battery over BLE Modbus, after two weeks chasing a decoy device
- Gazebo Fans — Bluetooth ceiling fans controlled by encrypted advertisements, adopted by cloning their remotes
- Gazebo String Lights — decoding a Tuya controller’s per-pixel pattern format for arbitrary custom scenes
The RV’s own control system lives in its own corner: Lippert OneControl over CAN.