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Indoor Air-Quality / Sensor Playground Project
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Feature: ESPHome #1

Open jrsphoto opened 2 years ago

jrsphoto commented 2 years ago

I am into home automation and the system I use, Home Assistant, has extensive support for something called ESPHome. Home automation would be a great use for this board and all the sensor data can be stored, graphed, and utilized in almost limitless ways within the Home Assistant environment, and by using ESPHome, it might not be that hard to implement.

tdwgithub commented 2 years ago

John, One of the specific applications I had in mind for the SP was to control the HVAC a bit more, based on the sensor readings it provides.  I want to trigger ventilation when levels get too high and vice-versa as they come down.   I've read a bit on Home Assistant but have never heard of ESPHome 'til now.  Very cool!  Going to read up on both and see how the SP could be integrated.  Thanks for the suggestions! My current HA "system" consists of mainly lighting control, a NEST thermostat, sensors for temperature, humidity, VOC, & PM2.5 (the SP, of course), plus cameras, some water-ingress sensors, & my garage-door monitor.  They're not integrated via any particular management system though and with all that I've done, I think it's about time to do that.  That's why Home Assistant & ESPHome (or something like them) looks really interesting. Thanks again! Todd On Monday, March 21, 2022, 02:48:55 AM EDT, John Scherer @.***> wrote:

I am into home automation and the system I use, Home Assistant, has extensive support for something called ESPHome. Home automation would be a great use for this board and all the sensor data can be stored, graphed, and utilized in almost limitless ways within the Home Assistant environment, and by using ESPHome, it might not be that hard to implement.

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jrsphoto commented 2 years ago

ESPHome is very cool and using it with home assistant is wonderful. You can even do over-the-air updates to esp32's running ESPHome. I use them to monitor my water heater (temp and when it comes on/off, etc. bunch of other applications too. Then log everything to a sql database and graph with Grafana.