ESPHome WITHOUT Home Assistant

You typically use ESPHome with Home Assistant, but you can also connect it to other systems such as Node-RED or just have it as a stand-alone device.
ESPHome is perfect for building DIY Sensors.
I'm going to use the MQTT and HTTP ESPHome components to connect a sensor to Node-RED without the need to Home Assistant.
ESPHome Install Script: gist.github.com/letsautomaten...
ESPHome YAML Example: gist.github.com/letsautomaten...
00:00 Intro
01:48 Uses of ESPHome without Home Assistant
02:42 ESPHome Install | Ubuntu
06:03 Summary of flashing ESPHome Devices
06:49 Use MQTT with ESPHome
10:54 Use HTTP / Webhooks with ESPHome
12:47 Outro
#esphome #homeassistant #nodered

[@lostacolyte]

Is it possible to perform actions with just the command promt on windows? you're using a local host MQTT. I.e Tell esphome to activate a bluetooth device Via string or condition?

[@marcus3d]

10:43 Why is there duplicate on/off? No internal debounce?

[@lets-automate]

I think I actually pressed the button a few times.
If you look at my example yaml there is a delayed_off, which will act as a debounce. I set it at 10ms by the look of it, could perhaps be slightly higher.

[@uSlackr]

I am looking to run the esphome compiler on my windows machine and struggling to get it working. Need this because I have a ton of devices and the HA green is just not up to it. Topic for a future video, maybe??

[@lets-automate]

Presumably you've followed this doc and it's not working?
esphome.io/guides/installing_esphome
It might be to do with your Python version if you have issues.
Otherwise perhaps create a Linux VM on your PC. Another option might be to try WSL2 on Windows, but that can take a bit of effort to setup from what I remember.