Is there a way to connect ESP32 devices to HA without using ESPHome? I like programming the devices using C and the arduino IDE. And I like the idea of having standard ESP32 programming for all use cases. But it looks like using ESPHome makes you swap over to YAML which is not something that would portable to folks who are not using HA.
Just use mqtt or zigbee if you prefer.
I don’t know about mqtt - lemme give that a google Feel free to shoot me a brief description if you have a moment. I promise I’m going to google right now though
My googling went fast - I think I see how to make this happen. Thanks Prairie Snpr
I use this Ardunio library that makes it pretty easy to create HA sensors via MQTT:
Oh this is a great link - thank you sir!
OK, you’ve got my attention. I never thought about using Zigbee on an ESP device. Would this be done from within Arduino or some such IDE?
I understand they were working to allow zigbee in the arduino ide, but I haven’t followed it. I’ve been using esp-idf with the ESP32-C6 or ESP32-H2 and it has worked well. The super mini clones are very cheap, the range isn’t great but hard to beat for the price.
Some examples: