These 7 smart home jobs don't need a Raspberry Pi — an ESP32 does them for $5
…Flash it with ESPHome, and it will automatically show up in Home Assistant. The only trade-off is that an ESP32 can’t really compute much. That’s rarely an issue for…
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My ESP32 fills the same niche as a Raspberry Pi SBC, and it does so at a fraction of the cost
…However, my fears soon turned out to be unwarranted, as ESPHome Device Builder makes designing custom YAML code and flashing it to my microcontroller army a cakewalk. In fact, I’d go…
I built a $100 ePaper photo frame that never touches the cloud, and it looks like a real print
…ESPHome ties the whole thing together No cloud dependencies On the display side, ESPHome handles everything. All of the YAML is pretty straightforward, especially given that there is now official support for…
6 ESP32 projects that make more sense than buying another smart home gadget
…It's a cheap microcontroller that runs locally, and with ESPHome configured, each new project mostly just becomes a variation on a familiar pattern. You define your board, write some YAML, maybe…
I replaced my Raspberry Pis with $5 ESP32s for smart home projects, and they do everything I need
…However, I rely on ESPHome for my Home Assistant experiments, and this handy app makes tinkering with this microcontroller lineup a lot more bearable. For starters, ESPHome supports simple YAML syntax, so…
Your first ESP32 project shouldn't be a weather station — it should be a box of 30 random sensors
…A big part of the reason it's a viable strategy now is thanks to ESPHome, though there are a ton of standardized libraries, too. ESPHome supports well over 200 sensor components…
I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
…I picked up a few ESP32 microcontrollers and flashed some with ESPHome . Others I experimented with, using them as a Thread Router and a Bluetooth proxy. ESPHome ESPHome is an open-source…
I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
…It has the same quirks with my ESPHome implementation, and the refresh rate isn't going to win any awards, but it works. Plus, a wall-mounted tablet glows, dims, sleeps, wakes…
Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
…ESPHome See at ESPHome Gemini for Home is the AI upgrade that wasn’t Things still work on Google’s servers Google's Gemini for Home is an upgrade to a decade…
I replaced my Echo with a $4 ESP32-powered speaker that runs entirely on my local network
…At around $4 for the chip or $15 with a microphone, you can have a voice satellite that is faster, cleaner, and 100% private by using ESPHome and Home Assistant Assist pipeline…