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Yeah fair enough the Zigbee ones will last longer with one battery anyway. I only have one ESP32 for the 4 BLE sensors, it handles them all fine across differe
by madjam002 6y ago
Yeah fair enough the Zigbee ones will last longer with one battery anyway.
I only have one ESP32 for the 4 BLE sensors, it handles them all fine across different corners of my flat (the furthest one is around 10m through 2 walls). The same ESP32 is also in my utility cupboard with a photoresistor attached taped to my electric meter which counts the LED pulses so I can see how much electricity I’ve used in Home Assistant as well. Esphome makes it easy to configure multiple use cases for one device like that
- StavrosK 6y agoHmm, that's interesting. I've never tried ESPhome, but I should. I rolled my own five years ago and it's been working fine so far, but ESPhome + Home Assistant might be easier to configure and update than Espurna.
- madjam002 6y agoYeah I was using Espurna on my lightbulbs that I replaced the firmware with (they were Tuya-based bulbs so I swapped them for Espurna). It was rock solid but I decided to move to Esphome as I liked the YAML based config, makes for a more "infra-as-code" style for IoT devices :) Since then I'm using it on all kinds now, my own ESP32 dev board like I mentioned for the BLE sensors, and a variety of Shelly 1 devices and random brands of WiFi smart plugs from Amazon.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat sounds great, I like Espurna for the web interface and general quality but I really hate the C-style header file configuration, it's very hard to update your code. With YAML, I at least know that the file I have will continue to work across updates. Seems much more usable.