It will depend on the material under the paint. Any particulate board you will probably want to replace. Wood can be dried, sanded and repainted depending on the depth of the damage.

But you will need to check the state of the material under the paint to know for sure.

Edit: looking closer at the picture it looks like melamine maybe? If that is the case you should replace it if possible.

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I like to have them on esphome. In my case I have them as Bluetooth proxies and also use them with Bermuda BLE triangulation (in addition to the air quality stuff).

I have a Airgradient One (indoor) and a Airgradient Open air (outdoor) and love them. They are Esp boards with esphome configs available. They use readily available component that makes sensors easy to replace when they wear out or loose accuracy over time.

The whole project is open and you can buy the DIY kit and build it yourself or buy a prebuilt one.

https://www.airgradient.com/

I think people will find it harder and harder to find open source projects without AI coding in it.

AI (at least with recent models) can really be a time saver and a skill booster (up to a point), and open source projects are all about people giving their time away for free. You can boycott projects that use AI all you want, but will you be giving your time and do the work AI does for the project? I think that a lot of no-AI forks of existing projects will eventually die from lack of maintenance while the original AI assisted will continue to grow.

That being said, there is also a difference between a full bro-ai-vibe coded project from someone with little technical skill or knowledge (“Claude build me the next Facebook, secure, no bugs plz” ) and a more fleshed out project using AI to assist experienced developers.

For those of you who are interested in this but don’t know where to start I think https://www.freedombox.org/ may be a good starting point. It’s been around for a long time, provides easy enough installation and a nice web interface for management. Its based on Debian and you can give it a try on their demo.

Also the vision for the project aligns pretty much with what op is saying https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Vision

I have two Yale Zwave locks that are at least 11 years old and still kicking. The key factor to this is the non reliance on the cloud.

Zigbee, Zwave, Esphome and other non-cloud will always work longer than any cloud based solution that is at risk of being shutdown, use a outdated or no longer available app, become a subscription, etc.

I agree with you that they should be required by law to open their code and unlock the devices but I doubt this will happen any time soon.

I’m not sure what your regular OS is but on Linux you can also use Qemu/Kvm to run virtual machines, or docker/podman for containers. You can also look into Virtual Box for a more finished interface. If you want to have something that behaves like the cloud you could also try Incus.

On windows : HyperV or Virtual Box for vms, you can also use Docker Desktop or Podman desktop. I think wsl also let you run services.

https://github.com/esphome/wake-word-voice-assistants/blob/main/m5stack-atom-echo/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml

These are the latest official configs for the echo.