Hi,
I’m trying to configure things in ESPhome in HomeAssistant but I can’t get my head around the architecture. Thanks to advanced copy-and-paste from examples on the internet, things are working, but I’s like to understand why
I have been Googling for about 1hr, but didn’t find what I need
Time to call in the cavalry, the experts on this forum… you
Can somebody point me to a documentation page that describes the hierarchy of :
“integrations domains platforms components entities”
e.g.
I have the below configuration (in ESPhome).
It works, but I don’t understand it
My apologies if this sounds like a broken record, but for me, this feels like an important thing to understand.
To make the “light” work in home-assistant, apparently we need 2 separate entries. (or is my understanding wrong?)
Entry1 is output
Entry2 is light
ah, cool, indeed, I had not seen this Generic Output Switch documentation.
So, this 2-stage approach seems like the more “generic” and “pure” way to go.
Also, I noticed that the first part (the output), is restricted to the ESP board itself, while the second part (the switch) is what will be send to Home-assistant.
thank you for your input @birchman
things are slowly coming together in my mind
chrisV