ESPHome is fantastic. I use it all the time, lately for custom gate entry solutions for clients. Where I live it's not uncommon to have a metal gate at the sidewalk and then another door into the house after that, both having electronic strikes. I like to modify Yale Assure SL locks to control these strikes by having the Yale lock hit a switch connected to an ESPHome microcontroller and from there activate a relay board to control the door strikes. I usually add door sensors and LED indicators too. The neat thing is you can write basic automations directly to the ESPHome device and have it function without being connected to Home Assistant. This is great because it's important for it to work reliably even if your network is down or smart hub has a problem, but you still have the option of brining all those sensors and switches into Home Assistant if desired.
Quick question, let's say I have an esphome wall switch to turn lights off and on. Can they control a smart esphome globe without using HA or even send rest API to Tasmota globe.
@@clairerovic ESPHome has not implemented ESP-Now functionality. The way ESPHome is currently working, you'd have to have everything running on the same microcontroller for automations to run without Home Assistant.
@@taylorlightfoot Thanks for your wonderful insight. Started looking at esp-now as I didn't know it existed. I did bump into this, thought I would share, grin obviously can't share the real link - preview--esphome wifi_now
Why have my 2 posts been deleted? I've linked to the sonoff page where you can get premade usb versions of what you've made. In fact theres more than one company doing it.
Hi, nice video, in this I need one help I'm using the Wemose D1 mini with a 4channel relay module on ESP-Home. everything works great only problem is with Booting or restarting the ESP, it makes the relay module turn ON in a fraction of a second it is turning off ( triggering ON and OFF) after that everything works fine. Only I restart or boot the esp problem occurs. what about u, r u having the same issue. How to solve this.
Change the GPIO you are using. Some pins are high/low on boot and others should not be used at all. Have a look at the pinouts shown on RandomNerdTutorials
I'm not using a D1 Mini so my experience isn't going to be the same. That said, I've got the USB power switch wired up to the Normally Closed pin of the relay instead of NO, meaning that when it boots, for a fraction of a second, it's not going to have energised the relay, so power flows from the Common pin to the NC pin. In my use case it's not a problem though.
