+++ date = "2020-02-01T00:02:42+02:00" title = "ESPHome as a Ruuvi bridge" highlight = true draft = false +++

ESPHome is a framework for building custom home automation that runs on an ESP8266 or ESP32. It's pretty cool - you select and configure components by writing a YAML file, which then drives host side Python snippets to configure and bind the device side code, which is then built and pushed using PlatformIO.

Some nice touches:

• It integrates with Home Assistant and has automatic discovery
• It can drive displays, including rendering TTF files host side to give nice fonts device side
• It looks reasonably composable so, for example, you can have multiple Bluetooth broadcast parsers

I used this to bridge between Ruuvi tags and my Home Assistant instance. Home Assistant then re-exports everything to Prometheus.

It also gave me a reason to break out the 3D printer and make a case for the ESP-WROOM-32 based Lolin32: