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Possibility to define pin aliases #2479

Open alexiri opened 11 months ago

alexiri commented 11 months ago

Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like

All of my devices include a basic yaml with general configuration, like api, ota, etc. This configuration also includes status_led with pin: LED. This works fine with commercial boards which have a LED alias defined, but it doesn't work for custom boards.

I'd like to be able to define custom pin aliases, something like this:

esp8266:
  board: esp8285
  pin_aliases:
    LED: 13

Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:

I can't reuse my common yaml templates unless the board has a defined LED alias already.

Additional context

This might also be solved by something like https://github.com/esphome/feature-requests/issues/2348, but this solution might be simpler.

ssieb commented 11 months ago

Why not just use a substitution?

alexiri commented 11 months ago

I guess I could, but this would force me to define it in all the other devices that already have a pin alias. Kind of defeats the purpose of aliases, then. I guess it wouldn't matter if I could define define the status_led pin as pin: LED || $LED or something like that.