My ESP-NOW integration library - enable direct communication between your esphome devices even without wifi router

[orange-assistant (the real one)]

Here is a link to a more recent integration of esp-now for esphome

Releases · motwok/esphome

There is also a pending pr to include this into esphome

[poldim]

The user @motwok doesn’t exist here
Maybe @jesserockz can take a peak at this? It seems to be pretty far along

[orange-assistant (the real one)]

@poldim

The user @motwok doesn’t exist here

you can reach him on the esphome discord user @mo2000

[anonforumposter]

@orange-assistant

I then run a platformio platform update

@orange-assistant where do you run this command? HA instance command line?

I’m thinking of creating some esp-now based sensors.
To my understanding, ESP-now would allow these ESP-now sensors to communicate between themselves, but not with HA. For that, you need to use one extra ESP node as the “bridge” to receive ESP-now messages and then publish them to HA (via MQTT for example)
Is this correct?

This would require both protocols to be able to work alongside in this “bridge” node.

• can someone confirm that esp-now works alongside wifi?
• @iphong I’m sorry but I’m a bit confused by your github repo… are we importing esp_now_connect.h or EspRC.h

[lordzid]

Could someone give me an example: there are two switches, you need to synchronize them via esp now

[orange-assistant (the real one)]

Espressif has created ESP-NOW communications protocol

Actually there is a pull request pending which needs testing/reviews to be released into the stable esphome branch You are all invited to test esp-now with esphome and report your findings directly in github The corresponding docs are here And this pr should enable normal wifi to work together with esp-now on a esp how-can-i-test-a-pull-request:

For the latest and greatest pull request that brings esp-now into esphome a documentation is available

[fabiosoft (Fabio)]

Hope to see it released soon!

[orange-assistant (the real one)]

@fabiosoft

Hope to see it released

Doesn’t look to good actually if you follow the PR/feature-request. Mainly do tue insufficient people checking/trying the code and giving a review/feedback about the PR it might even never get merged as with every day the code bases are drifting apart

[racingpassion]

@orange-assistant

Doesn’t look to good actually if you follow the PR/feature-request. Mainly do tue insufficient people checking/trying the code and giving a review/feedback about the PR it might even never get merged as with every day the code bases are drifting apart

It appears to me that one of the reason there is not much feedback, is because the instructions on how to implement the component is not clear on how you do this. I am not a coder and would appreciate some simple but precise instructions, I would love to help out with testing etc. I think this component is important for battery powered devices.

[racingpassion]

Is it possible that somebody can share the configuration and details of how to set this up and have it working , I’v look in forums and discussions but this ,still have no success on actually getting this working from what I can gather there’s two or maybe more projects that is actually doing this but I can’t seem to get any of them working more help please

[nickrout]

Is this what you are after? WiFi Now Component — ESPHome

[racingpassion]

Yes but I’m looking for instructions that makes sense to somebody who is not a coder, I’ve read through the links can’t seem to get to grips with it.

[racingpassion]

In these instructions it doesn’t state any way that you have to use an external component.

external_components:
  # replace 1234 with the number of the Pull Request
  - source: github://pr#1234
    components:
      # list all components modified by this Pull Request here
      - ccs811

I just need the correct details to fill in the relevant spaces.
A little help please

[nickrout]

Look I am just trying to help by pointing you to the docs I can find. But the PR is 1290 so my (un)educated guess is

external_components:
  - source: github://pr#1290
    components: [ wifi_now ]

But you can see from the PR that at least one person had a failure with that.

[racingpassion]

Thanks for your time the documents ,aren’t sufficient and doesn’t do anything for me thank you anyway.

[nickrout]

Well this component isn’t in esphome now and testing will obviously require some playing around. Did the external_component setup I quoted fix it for you?

[racingpassion]

Well that got rid of the error in the editor, I’m sure I tried this combination before, anyway I shall continue messing around with it and see where I get to thanks.

[sparky073 (Steven Dean)]

I’m trying to experiment with this feature too. Did you ever get it working?

[balk77]

That was me. PR1290 is based on an esphome fork of some months ago. I tried early Jan this year. I just looked at the pr and there has been development since then. I will try again.

[tomrusteze (Tom Rust)]

I have also started to work on an implementation for esp-now in esphome. It is mainly focussed on lights.
Check it out at GitHub