Integrating With ESPHome Sensor

ESPHome
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Good day all,

Can anyone start me down the path of learning how to write my own python program to read an ESPHome sensor? I normally use Home Assistant to integrate with ESPHome but I am working on a project with a friend and would like to have a simple interface to the sensor without having to install HA or an MQTT broker.

A simplified use case - a temperature sensor on an ESPHome node and I read the temperature and display it in my Python program. I may also need to send values back to the ESPHome node for control. The project is not fully defined yet.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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The built-in native API can also be used independently of HA, and there is a Python library “aioesphomeapi” that you can use to integrate with your device. There is some sample code available as well.