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Re: ESPHome

#21

Post by lostlogin »

sen wrote: post #5

I've got 20+ devices running ESPHome, about 3/4 of them are part of my Home Assistant network, and maybe 6 or so that are standalone and just using ESPHome to talk to MQTT for other stuff (cheap Chinese weather station that I replaced the insides of with an ESP32, etc). I've got my rain water tanks monitored, my soil moisture in my greenhouse, the temperature and humidity in all different parts of the house, air qual…

I agree with everything here, except the $10 of hardware.

You must be running some very fancy chips!

For extra savings the ESP8266 might be as low as $4us. It really is amazing.

Re: ESPHome

#22

Post by oleg_tarasov »

djbusby wrote: post #6

Anyone got this to replace their thermostat? Like sensors in zoneA signal and a device connected to the HVAC triggers ON? Maybe they're on WiFi or Ethernet connection?

Actually I did exactly that :) I use ESPHome to control a gas boiler which heats my home. It's not without problems and required a lot of tinkering, but after the initial phase it required very little maintenance throughout the winter. This year I plan on adding an ability to control AC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017176

Re: ESPHome

#23

Post by gnyman »

Mashimo wrote: post #16

It's so nice. Just a simple .yaml file to configure IoT devices. And it works really well.

And the best part is that it allows you to write logic in C(++) if you want.

I tried Tasmota first but struggled with trying to get the rules to handle my slightly complex logic. Which was that when a water level sensor triggered, run a pump 15 seconds, wait 5 mins, run 15 sec and repeat for x times. But with the catch that if the sensor triggered before the run was done, it should ignore that.

After reflashing esphome I got it done in a few minutes in C.

Re: ESPHome

#24

Post by M95D »

allenbina wrote: post #8

I’ve been happy with tasmota but I imagine that this would serve the same purpose.

It is a lot more configurable than Tasmota, but a lot harder to do it.

Re: ESPHome

#25

Post by macropin »

sen wrote: post #5

I've got 20+ devices running ESPHome, about 3/4 of them are part of my Home Assistant network, and maybe 6 or so that are standalone and just using ESPHome to talk to MQTT for other stuff (cheap Chinese weather station that I replaced the insides of with an ESP32, etc). I've got my rain water tanks monitored, my soil moisture in my greenhouse, the temperature and humidity in all different parts of the house, air qual…

How do you power them? I've used ESPHome previously to scrape my solar analytics for consumption in Home Assistant using $3 Wittycloud ESP8266's. But as yet I haven't found an elegant solution for powering them other than using a USB adapter. It would be nice to find an elegant battery solution for outside sensors.

Re: ESPHome

#26

Post by balloob »

stavros wrote: post #2

I don't use this, personally, but it strikes me as a fantastic idea. I made a sensor board and wrote my own firmware for it, maybe I'll see if I can easily configure ESPhome to run on it. The only thing I'd need that my thing already has is pull-based OTA updates. Right now I just copy a firmware to a folder, and all my sensors around the house automatically update to that firmware via an HTTP server. With ESPhome, I…

This is coming in the next release.

Re: ESPHome

#28

Post by balloob »

One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions.

Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. Learn more at https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-...

Re: ESPHome

#29

Post by rubenbe »

lostlogin wrote: post #21
sen wrote: post #5

I've got 20+ devices running ESPHome, about 3/4 of them are part of my Home Assistant network, and maybe 6 or so that are standalone and just using ESPHome to talk to MQTT for other stuff (cheap Chinese weather station that I replaced the insides of with an ESP32, etc). I've got my rain water tanks monitored, my soil moisture in my greenhouse, the temperature and humidity in all different parts of the house, air qual…

I agree with everything here, except the $10 of hardware. You must be running some very fancy chips! For extra savings the ESP8266 might be as low as $4us. It really is amazing.

I started valuing the enclosure that comes with the 10 dollar versions (e.g. the M5stack atom).

Since most use-cases for me are literally 1 sensor connected to an Atom, it (largely) fixes the enclosure problem. Although I'd like to have more DIN rail mounted options.

Re: ESPHome

#30

Post by Liftyee »

Running a few ESPHome projects, it's great for rescuing those which I lost motivation to write code for. The ability to do processing on-device as well as with Home Assistant is neat, but writing those procedural routines with YAML takes a little getting used to. The concepts used in the ESPHome system design are not completely intuitive.
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