Thanks for your kind words and your project! I have no idea how I missed Home Assistant, written in Python3 and so popular (my usual complain about HA projects

Thanks for your kind words and your project! I have no idea how I missed Home Assistant, written in Python3 and so popular (my usual complain about HA projects is "where're Python projects?" and "where's critical mass?"). I wish it would have caught my eye earlier. My journey with MicroPython actually started with my smart home project needs - I wanted to use one of those small inexpensive Linux routers as a central controller. With only 4MB of flash, full Python wouldn't fit there, and USB port would be taken by Bluetooth dongle. I tried, really tried to get in love with Lua, but that didn't work, then I hacked on another small language called Squirrel, but when MicroPython campaign was announced, I really rejoiced. Well, that was more than 2 years, and since then, we had big progress with MicroPython, and I had much less progress with my home automation project ;-). How I explained it to myself, is that, OK, I'll concentrate on uPy, to make it fairly complete and really cool, and that will enable other folks to make cool projects with it, which I myself will like, will be able to pick up, use, contribute to - instead of writing my own. Reading your message, I get a feeling that it might as well be true, and before I grow old ;-). So, thanks again for your links, Home Assistant is at the top of my list to look into (and I have couple of dozen projects in it). And well, we'll try to do everything to uphold your hopes for MicroPython on ESP8266!