ESPHome just made it easy to turn a cheap ESP32 into a Zigbee end device for your smart home
Every ESP32 sensor I've built for my smart home has the same lines at the top of its config: a Wi-Fi block, an API key, and yet another IP address on my network. The board on my desk right now has none of them. It's a Seeed XIAO ESP32-C6 running ESPHome, and Home Assistant's ESPHome integration will never see it, because it doesn't use Wi-Fi.
Every ESP32 sensor I've built for my smart home has the same lines at the top of its config: a Wi-Fi block, an API key, and yet another IP address on my network. The board on my desk right now has none of them. It's a Seeed XIAO ESP32-C6 running ESPHome, and Home Assistant's ESPHome integration will never see it, because it doesn't use Wi-Fi.
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