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Wi-Fi motion sensing platform for ESP32. C++ SDK, ESPHome, Native, and Matter frontends, browser tools, and a CLI for the full device lifecycle. GPLv3 and commercial licensing.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2025-11-09 · latest 2026-09-05

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2026 (5)
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    Sense motion with the Wi-Fi using ESP32
    story by FloatArtifact · 2026-09-05 · 0 comments
  2. Using this: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre
  3. Another option, which is ESP32-based: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre
  4. This has been shared on Hacker News before: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre
  5. …hit all the "common" issues (one was flashing an ESP32 to play around with WiFi motion detection - https://github.com/francescopace/espectre ) but even then, I just don't get this "ChatGPT is shit" output that even the author is seeing.
    comment by properbrew · 2026-03-11 · in Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?
  6. …is to force the ESP32 to hook onto the MAC address of a single Access Point, as discussed here: https://github.com/francescopace/espectre/discussions/6
  7. Probably one per room because all the examples at https://github.com/francescopace/espectre/blob/main/CALIBRAT... are about a single room. Is the author reads this, how does the system cope with multiple rooms in the same house, maybe a…
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    Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis
    story by francescopace · 2025-11-17 · 50 comments
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    Motion detection system based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis
    story by kristianpaul · 2025-11-09 · 1 comment