TJ Horner’s Upsy Desky Integrates Your Standing Desk Into Your Residence Automation Setup

Developer TJ Horner has launched an open supply machine designed to combine a motorized standing desk into a house automation surroundings: the Espressif ESP32-powered Upsy Desky.

“The Upsy Desky [is] a tool which helps you to join your standing desk to any residence automation system,” Horner explains of the venture. “That is the successor to the WiFi Standing Desk Controller, filled with enhancements and bug fixes.”

The center of the venture is a customized management field housing an Espressif ESP32-WROOM module, designed to connect with any mannequin of desk that makes use of an RJ11 connector to hyperlink the keypad to the motor unit — although, on the time of writing, the default ESPHome-based firmware had solely been examined with the UPLIFT v2 and Totally Jarvis standing desk management techniques.

“[The Upsy Desky] can learn your desk’s present peak, and set it as properly. This allows you to create automations that combine together with your desk,” Horner explains, “for instance: If you happen to’re sitting for too lengthy, elevate desk to standing peak; whenever you go away residence, elevate desk to max peak so the cat cannot knock issues over; have an infinite variety of presets for everybody in your family; ship desk peak knowledge to InfluxDB to research how usually you are sitting vs. standing; publish your desk’s peak on the web.”

Among the many enhancements made out of Horner’s authentic design are a transfer to a USB Kind-C port for firmware flashing, the flexibility to configure the firmware for Wi-Fi entry and residential automation integration at runtime with out having to recompile and reflash, a safer but additionally extra accessible enclosure design, and “a catchier title,” Horner jokes, “as a result of ‘WiFi Standing Desk Controller’ was a mouthful.”

The design information for the {hardware} and supply code for the firmware can be found on Horner’s GitHub repository now below permissive Inventive Commons and MIT licenses; totally assembled items are set to go on sale on Tindie this week at $25 every.