I started out with Arduino but quickly switched to EspHome. There's just so much built in that you don't have to sort out: * Wifi reconnect * Mqtt (and HomeAs

I started out with Arduino but quickly switched to EspHome. There's just so much built in that you don't have to sort out: * Wifi reconnect * Mqtt (and HomeAssistant) integration, with reconnect * Hotspot (initial configuration) support * Tons of hardware devices supported * Even for basic digital io, there's nice quality of life things a line of yaml away: debounce, internal pullup, invert.. Basically by my second or third experiment I found myself starting to build more reusable libraries to do stuff like wifi+mqtt reconnect. Thought "someone must have done this before" and found "Yes, plus went 1000 miles further and built EspHome"