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Re:ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant by pathartl on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:47PM (#31522016)
I agree with the last point, so I usually end up delegating any sort of logic handling to my automations. ESPHome will just report the state of sensors, my code figures out what to do with them.
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Re:ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant by darknavi on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:30PM (#31523017)
I _really_ like that you can do light automations easily with ESPHome as well. For my cat feeder, it has some cron-like scheduling to go off ever so often and I do not want my cats to starve if my Home Assistant VM is down.
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Re:ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant by michaelmior on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:05PM (#31522768)
That's understandable although of course doing things in YAML in ESPHome has the advantage that it will continue to work if HA is unavailable for some reason.
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Re:ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant by godsfshrmn on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:02PM (#31523323)
I prefer the same but still for important uses I'll write native code to serve as a back up - e.g sprinkler auto shut off after x minutes
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