Introduction | Upsy Desky

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The Upsy Desky is a device that allows you to control your standing desk from your home automation system. It acts as a man in the middle between your desk's control box and its handset, intercepting and issuing commands to the desk. It can be installed in a few minutes and retains your handset's existing functionality.

The firmware is based on ESPHome, so it supports a wide range of protocols like MQTT, but works best with Home Assistant. This lets you create automations that integrate with your desk, for example:

The entire project is open source, from schematics to firmware. You can find the source code on GitHub. If you'd like to get one, you can either build one yourself from the source files provided, or you can purchase a pre-built one from my Tindie shop.

Do I need to be able to control my standing desk with a RESTful API call? No, absolutely not. Do I love being able to control my standing desk with a RESTful API call? Yes, absolutely yes!