Hello everybody!
Introduction and motivation
I have been using Home Assistant and ESPHome for almost 2 years now and automated a lot of trivial stuff around my house.
I love these projects and rely on them day by day. There are many custom projects that I have made until now for my personal use and in all of them I used the information shared by this community, so I decided to give something back and share this project, hoping that it will be interesting and helpful for somebody else.
Project Description
As mentioned in the title, this project is a Lilygo T5 Plus based informer, designed to display some useful information from Home Assistant using the power of ESPHome.
It contains all the relevant information that I needed to make it work, and by “work” I mean to get it compiled, uploaded and displaying the right information for me.
It was tricky sometimes because of the esp32-s3 chip. Due to this, there were some difficulties at compilation in ESPHome, but I managed to do it in the end.
Below is a photo of the end result that I have obtained.
All the relevant configuration files, assembly steps and case 3D files can be found in the github repository here.