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Re: ESPHome

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Post by petemir » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:22 AM UTC

throwaway290 wrote: post #53

petemir wrote: post #49

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Ikea's PARASOLL? I would expect that for your use-case, just knowing if a/the door was opened is already enough.

Is Ikea stuff compatible with ESPhome? Never mind, parasoll costs like $12. I mean something like HLK-LD2420 which should be around $2. ESPHome lists many similar sensors and I was asking which one is better. Curious if anyone had any experience with any of those

No, it's not compatible. I am sorry, I misunderstood the purpose of your question.

Re: ESPHome

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Post by gregwebs » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC

For networking it says WiFi and BLE. What’s the approach to adding an ESPHome sensor outside of WiFi range?

Re: ESPHome

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Post by balloob » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC

bobby_the_whal wrote: post #59

balloob wrote: post #28

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-...

Are you not concerned the foundation will ever work against your interests?

The foundation can only work in the interest of privacy, choice and sustainability for the smart home. It is important that we have a thriving ecosystem of communities and companies working towards this goal. You cannot do this with just a single player. If, at some hypothetical point in the future, that means it will work against my interests, then the foundation is doing exactly what we created it for.

Re: ESPHome

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Post by shifto » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:37 AM UTC

gregwebs wrote: post #62

For networking it says WiFi and BLE. What’s the approach to adding an ESPHome sensor outside of WiFi range?

Not to be pedantic but it's ESPhome not ESPinthemiddleofnowhere. There are other solutions for far away sensors.

Re: ESPHome

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Post by nsteel » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:39 AM UTC

Asmod4n wrote: post #36

lostlogin wrote: post #21

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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.

Or you could buy a rpi2040 for 99 cents.

Wasn't there previously some problem with using Pico boards and you had to use a fork because PlatformIO were trying to get vendors to pay (for something they never asked for), and then kicking up a big fuss when they didn't pay up. I say vendorS because they are now trying it on with Espressif also. It seems like a very strange funding model. Did that get fixed? It was a depressing state of affairs when I last looked.

Re: ESPHome

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Post by sslalready » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 10:50 AM UTC

balloob wrote: post #28

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-...

ESPHome is awesome. Any chance you can get MQTT running on RP2040W?

Re: ESPHome

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Post by tomashubelbauer » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 11:06 AM UTC

shifto wrote: post #64

gregwebs wrote: post #62

For networking it says WiFi and BLE. What’s the approach to adding an ESPHome sensor outside of WiFi range?

Not to be pedantic but it's ESPhome not ESPinthemiddleofnowhere. There are other solutions for far away sensors.

There is a very real band which one could call ESPgarden where it is not worth setting up LoRa or similar because the Wi-Fi can just about make it, but not quite to be reliable. I've found success with Wi-Fi extenders which aren't very good, but are just good enough to be able to be able to let some of my garden reach the network.

Re: ESPHome

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Post by mairusu » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 11:11 AM UTC

balloob wrote: post #28

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-...

I have one! ESPHome is awesome but I'm trying to steer away from Wifi IoT - a big reason is that I like the idea of self-healing meshes that can work entirely offline, without having to deal with a lot of configuration.

Espressif seems to have a few devices with ZigBee capabilities, think there will be a way of building our own ZigBee device in the future?

Re: ESPHome

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Post by ahaucnx » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 11:14 AM UTC

What I love most about ESPHome is the strong and engaged community.

For our open-source hardware air quality monitors [1], a member of the community developed a sophisticated ESPHome integration [2]. His integration comes with all features that we have in our default open-source firmware. Sometimes he was even quicker implementing new features than we did! So in a way, this helped and motivated us to make our own software version better (kind of open source competition).

So a big thank-you from my side to such a great community!

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/

[2] https://github.com/MallocArray/airgradient_esphome

Re: ESPHome

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Post by ahaucnx » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 11:22 AM UTC

balloob wrote: post #28

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-...

First of all many thanks for helping to maintain such a great project!

The feedback I have right now is that for the ESP32-C3 chip, provisioning over USB (Improv_serial) is not supported. So then the only option is to do provisioning over BLE if you want to get the "Made for ESPHome" certification.

However, this blew up our partition size from 1.2 MB to 1.9 MB and basically prevented us to add any further code and we got stuck there (we now develop a native HA integration).

So my feedback would be to try and reduce the overhead for the provisioning.