Esphome is limiting though. Want to have a sensor that spawns a camera stream only on PIR detection, and then sleeps? Forget about it, those two will run in parallel.
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SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 days agoLearning ESPHome has been the most liberating thing. Take back control of your home. Local first. Privacy respecting.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Tja@programming.dev 2 days ago
I agree. A few years ago I wanted to activate a fan based on temperature in a server cabinet, and offer a REST and MQTT APIs (for HA). It was impossible with ESP Home for some reason, if you added the Bosch 280 sensor you couldn’t use MQTT. Very arbitrary limitations.
It took me less than 2 hours to build it with an ESP32 + Arduino. It’s all libraries that you just need to put together at this point, barely any logic at all.
renard_roux@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 days ago
Maybe give nowsci.com/only-sensor a shot? I built the guides/schematics/models for ESPHome devices as a learning experience for myself.
@SkyNTP@lemmy.ml I felt the same way. Now I just keep making new things for it, currently on garage door opener, blinds opener, and may even automate turning on my DIY solder fume extractor.