@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A4: I’m just about to do exactly this when my new workbench is done - I’ll be combining a 3d printed robot bust with electronics and a microcontroller powered by #EspHome to create a functional desktop robot voice assistant and then giving it a rusty paint job and using it for LLM experiments!
ESPHome Developers released #ESPHome version 2025.3.3. https://esphome.io/
here is the code code for running the cat wheel speedometer on #ESPHome and #HomeAssistant directly, rather than through MQTT and Arduino coding on the ESP32
https://sarahdal.github.io/home%20assistant/2025/03/30/Cat-speedo-2.html
So my much-hated Ring 2 doorbell just plain died and I thank it for it as it forces me to finally change it.
In emergency I built a small button + buzzer simple doorbell with an ESP32 running #ESPHome. At least this will now * reliably* rings into my #HomeAssistant setup (makes the whole house blink ). Will install today.
This ESP32 board will be controlling the low-voltage blinds in the apartment. Happy that the normal AC switches work as contacts. (Not sure why I doubted they would).
Just like that, a Mitsubishi mini split is now controllable via #esphome and the ever brilliant #homeassistant
$10 in parts and about 20 mins of time. (case 3d printing overnight so it looks like it belongs)
details to follow in a video/blog post
This is the frustrating thing about #ESPHome for me. Updating is always kind of a pain in the ass. Maybe I just don't understand how to manage them. Idk.
ESPHome Developers released #ESPHome version 2025.3.2. https://esphome.io/
Hoje pro #TerSoftware vou falar de #ESPHome .
Ele é uma camada que facilita muito tudo que antes se fazia com o sistema Arduino. Você define os sensores compatíveis e conecta na sua plaquinha ESP32 e boom você tem um sensor / relê etc rodando totalmente localmente sem nenhuma conexão (obrigatório) com o tal cloud e integrado fácil no #homeassistant
Pode involver solda mas têm soluções para se livrar (eu finalmente aprendi e gostei).
Não sei se alguém tem um link de um bom tutorial em 
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That's an InkBird Bluetooth temperature-humidity sensor inside the proofing cupboard. There's also an M5Stack AtomLite running #ESPHome acting as the Bluetooth relay to #homeassistant (in another room).
Whole weekend fucking around with #esphome writing a custom component and guessing how to do it. I don't know why I enjoy it, hahaha
Just finished my two ESP32 with 800x600 Touchscreen running ESPHome (LVGL) via PoE LAN 
ESPHome Developers released #ESPHome version 2025.3.1. https://esphome.io/
Not the best camera placement, but I truely, truely love the combination of #Homeassistant (Dashboard), #ESPHome (Controllable RGB Ligthing), #Octoprint (Camera Host) and some custom #Python coding (to query my RRF printer) in this picture 
Fully #FOSS from start to finish 
#3DJGummikuh
Having a go at setting up home assistant with ESPHome since it’s high time I chucked Alexa out
#HomeAssistant #ESPHome (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2025/03/22/1742636865/)
My #shelly RGBW PM (esp32) refused to connect to the WPA2 PSK Accesspoint I created on my Raspberry3 while connecting fine to WiFi accsspoints created on other linux devices. Even flashing it with a current #esphome firmware did not help.
After trying a lot of different things, I finally figured out that setting 802-11-wireless-security.proto to rsn makes it work. Even though the documentation says, the default should work.
Posting it just in case someone else runs into it :-)
