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I'm personally a great fan of esphome.io. Use simple yaml files to configure a firmware built exactly to your whishes for various esp32 and esp8266 variants. In
by tda 6y ago
I'm personally a great fan of esphome.io. Use simple yaml files to configure a firmware built exactly to your whishes for various esp32 and esp8266 variants. Includes support for a ton of peripherals.
The list of supported hardware is actually a great place to look for which sensors are commonly used for for e.g. air quality, c02, temperature, humidity, power monitoring etc. Almost all supported sensors are available for a few bucks on aliexpress or equivalents.
You can connect the result to home assistant, but you can also move all or some of the logic to the board. So your light still switches on when motion is detected when your WiFi or the server is down. But if motion is detected at certain hours, you'll get a notification via home assistant
- misterdata 6y agoThis. ESPHome additionally provides a minimal form of "device management" for larger numbers of devices, including OTA updates of firmware. This is an often underestimated aspect of HA; having many devices of different types buried in your home's walls and ceilings will get cumbersome to maintain, update and replace very quickly.
- madjam002 6y agoI love ESPhome. I don’t use their web interface or anything for management, instead I have all of my config in a repo as “infrastructure as code” which gets deployed to all of my devices in one command.