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The tight integration with ESPHome is what tips the scale to the positive side for me. Quite often I feel frustrated dealing with dozens of lines of YAML in HA
by briHass 3y ago
The tight integration with ESPHome is what tips the scale to the positive side for me.
Quite often I feel frustrated dealing with dozens of lines of YAML in HA's convoluted DSL and wish I could drop to a real programming language. However, for the ESP/embedded devices, it's usually the opposite. ESPHome makes it easy to avoid all the boilerplate and footguns of the C++ libraries for these devices
- SingularCrane 3y agoI ditched the built-in YAML automations for AppDaemon a while ago and have no regrets.
- soitgoes511 3y agoI really appreciate both HA and ESPHome. The only gotcha I have encountered with ESPHome involved lost data with higher sampling rates (1 sample/0.2 second). To this day I am not sure what the issue was. I had better results with arduino framework vs esp-idf. Apart from that, it really does make spinning up a new sensor so easy and the OTA updates are excellent.
- rpearl 3y agoFor automations, check out pyscript, https://hacs-pyscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://hacs-pyscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ You can just write decorated functions in python.