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Atopile

February 11, 2024

atopile is a language and toolchain to describe electronic circuit boards with code.

Hardware


HABridge

January 6, 2024

Create a Home Assistant sensor from any hardware and send measurements with ESPNow or LoRa.

Sensors
ESPHome
Home Assistant


👀 SHT40 Waterproof Sensor Review

November 6, 2023

👀 SHT40 Waterproof Sensor Review

Sensors
SHTx
Review


🔭 Sensor Modules

October 28, 2023

Read about what our sensor modules are, how they are used, and what they can help you do.

Sensors
Modules
Hardware


Embedded CopyPasta 🍝

October 3, 2023

Ever notice that a lot of Arduino code is boilerplate? Find/download/#include library, Initialize class, :begin() class in setup(), Do something in loop(), Display or send some data. Embedded CopyPasta makes it easy to do all that automatically. Plus, it will make a PlatformIO project for you, download the libraries needed, and setup the build environment.

Arduino
Embedded
Tools


ESP-Now with ESPHome

July 2, 2023

ESP-Now is in Espresiff's words: a wireless communication protocol defined by Espressif, which enables the direct, quick and low- power control of smart devices, without the need of a router

ESPNow
ESPHome
Home Assistant


LoRa with ESPNow

June 27, 2023

After writing a component for ESP-Now with ESPHome, it was time to add LoRa. Semtech says this about LoRa: LoRa (short for long range) is a spread spectrum modulation technique derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology. Semtech’s LoRa is a long range, low power wireless platform that has…

LoRa
ESPNow
Home Assistant


🏠 Home Assistant will get first-class support

April 2, 2023

Home Assistant is awesome. A lot of our products are ultimately used within it, so Home Assistant will now get first-class support from us.

Home Assistant
ESPNow


The Shell Example

January 14, 2023

Each module comes with a Shell example. It provides a command-line REPL-type interface. If a problem can be detected in the hardware or firmware, it will bubble up to an error code.

shell
sketch
debugging