Lets talk ESP32 on Home Assistant using ESP Home

[JacoDeJongh]

Glad you could join the forum, thanks for joining, someone posted a link to your shop earlier today and I was impressed with your product range. For the guys here and the amount of home automation happening in their homes, I am sure your product range can be beneficial. Its always a mission shopping around for sonoffs, Astudes and who knows what else. Seems like you have all of that in one place. Good work.

[JacoDeJongh]

I have taken a look at it, should start playing with it as it can help my clients with Victron systems. I have heard through the grapevine that Victron wants to employ guys to assist with node-Red flows for their customers. I hope its not just a rumour.

[mmaritz]

Plus they could offer an included set of basic flows for customers “out the box”…

[JacoDeJongh]

@Sc00bs

4. Hands-On Assistance with ESPHome Automation

I’d be happy to guide you through setting up one sensor to build your understanding. Here’s a simple example of setting up a temperature sensor with local logic:

yaml

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sensor:
  - platform: dht
    pin: GPIO4
    temperature:
      name: "Temperature"
      id: temperature_sensor
    update_interval: 30s

automation:
  - alias: "Turn on fan when hot"
    trigger:
      platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.temperature_sensor
      above: 30.0
    action:
      - switch.turn_on: fan_relay
  - alias: "Turn off fan when cool"
    trigger:
      platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.temperature_sensor
      below: 25.0
    action:
      - switch.turn_off: fan_relay

Okay, the secret of running automations on the ESP itself is to define an id when setting up for example a switch.

Running an Automation on the ESP itself uses the ID, running an Automation from the Home Assistants side used the Name.

Work is far from done, but I am at last making progress in the right direction, and it works.

Tested it on a spare relay and Ds18b20 already connected to the setup but without any Automations set up on the HA side.

switch:
  - platform: gpio
    pin: 15
    name: "Heater 1"
    id: relay1
    inverted: True

sensor:
  - platform: dallas_temp
    name: "Tank 1"
    address: "0x5d3cc9e38163f028"
    update_interval: 10s
    on_value_range: 
    - above: 28
      then:
      - switch.turn_off: relay1
    - below: 28
      then:
      - switch.turn_on: relay1

Your post above had the answer in it, i just needed to see it. Thanks for the help. Will shout again when i get to the difficult part.