Home-assistant-barcode-Scanner
An ESP32 board with a barcode scanner for adding items to your home assistant shopping list
Details
- External ID
- 1367193853
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Home-assistant-barcode-Scanner
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28183448629259544
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- esp32 barcode scanner for home assistant shopping lists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This project requires physical hardware integration, embedded micro-controller programming (ESP32), and circuit/sensor wiring for a barcode scanner alongside Home Assistant APIs.
What it would actually take: Building this requires hardware prototyping with an ESP32 board, a compatible serial/UART or USB barcode scanner module, and designing power and casing. The firmware requires C++/ESP-IDF or ESPHome integration to read scanner inputs, handle debouncing, and make authenticated REST/WebSocket calls to the Home Assistant Shopping List integration.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #297 of 403 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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