@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] I highly recommend trying it. It opens a new world of possibilities. You can make both devices that are much cheaper than their counterparts available to buy, and ones that are not available at all (combine a few sensors/components in a mix that is not generally available). (1/2)

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] I wasn’t so lucky - Foxess cloud (for my inverter) sucks, and the modbus interface is a little bit better, and works locally. Still limited to refresh once every 2 minutes:/

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] You need to add the device (it should be auto discovered by HA and available in settings->devices->integrations), only after doing that it will be able to communicate with HA using its API. On the HA side you need to set up pipelines, it is described in the year of the voice blog post.

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] I’m running all of my esp devices on ESPHome - controlling my heat pump, recuperator and solar inverter suing modbus, using stuff like ld2410 in a few others.

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] I think it would be a valuable lesson if you’ve tried it. Once you do it the world of ESPHome supported stuff lies open to you ;)

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @homeassistantinpills @[email protected] I’ve just copied the yaml, added my WiFi network to the configuration then compiled and flashed it

@bazcurtis @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] You can only pair homekit device to one system (so either your home on Apple device or Home Assistant). You can pair it to HA, then re-expose to Apple Home via HomeKit bridge in HA.