ESPHome based Lilygo T5 Plus Informer for Home Assistant

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.

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