ESPHome Guide for Advanced and Intermediate Users

[@OPB682]

A video that has been needed for FOREVER. PLEASE MAKE MORE.

[@substandard649]

Excellent! I needed this a year ago 😂 I like that you highlighted the option to run the logic on the board rather than in HA, that's a key benefit of esphome and mostly overlooked.

[@uSlackr]

Agreed - It is probably the number one feature of ESPHome. It allows the controller to take action locally without relying on HA being available.

[@ilco31]

this is wat i so desperatly need more of . great video .would love to see more guides on eps home

[@HologramaZen]

Excellent content!!! So clean, clear, and professional!! Please continue making these videos!

[@sch9986]

This is a great overview and really brings a lot of clarity. Thank you so much

[@NoCPU]

It's a fantastic video and hitting a real gap in YT. Excited to see what you release next

[@uSlackr]

One clarification - you mention that with lambda functions, a lot of the work can be done on the esphome device, but changes will require new firmware. You are able to pass along value from HA into esphome for some customization. For instance, I needed to offset a sensor value to calibrate it and I was able to use a helper in HA to make the adjustment and pass it to esphome without the need for a firmware change.

[@lets-automate]

Yeah, for sure linking them up to HA entities is the best way of keeping flexibility of settings. How's the brewery endeavour going?

[@jimbo149]

Thank you for your instructive videos. very helpful

[@missko1962]

Really good educational video thanks! if I could wish for something, it would be an ESP home project with a load cell, scale, hx711, ESP32 with integration to Home Assistant with calibration and tare and zero function.

[@uSlackr]

Thanks for this. i've done a deep dive into ESPhome this past month or so and have learned a lot. I'm looking to automate a small commercial brewery and it appears ESPhome tied to Home Assistant is up to the task.

[@lets-automate]

That's really cool. Sounds like a nice practical use for using HA and ESPHome. Let me know what you end up automating!

[@Europhile]

Very helpful

[@floi.2005]

@lets-automate How is it possible to use instead of wifi a usb connection for data and stuff? Can you please explain How to get usb running in esphome?

[@giantbrain5793]

nice video.I want to ask, how do I do it if I want to share my IoT project with my family, so that the remaining family connects to the internet, then my esphome device directly connects to my family's new network. Thank you.

[@sugnaangus]

Do your family members already have Home Assistant?

[@lets-automate]

Thanks for the comment! When you say family, do mean in a separate household presumably? What sort of sensor is it, as in what data do you expect your family to get access to from your sensor? Also, as mentioned by @sugnaangus, would be good to know if they use Home Assistant too and if any of your systems are accessible externally, e.g. have a public address. If they do not, then you could send your sensor data to a cloud service via http or mqtt then they (and you) could access the sensor data from there.

[@avri210984]

For stuff like wifi ssid and password you should use secrets rather than substitutions

[@lets-automate]

Yeah, agreed and I should have mentioned that really. I do in my beginners video I believe. You will see that I do use the secrets for the house WIFI SSIS and Password, just not for the on-device AP. Some people might be happy to use the same AP details for each device, in which case using the secrets is perfect. If using different creds per device for increased security then I would say it is personal preference. You might not want to bother with entries per device in the secrets file. But of course you could.