ESPHome is a perfect complement to Home Assistant. In this video I show you how to get started using it and creating your own DIY sensors.

I show you how to set up a PIR Motion Sensor and Capacitive Touch Button using a D1 Mini ESP8266 microcontroller.

ESPHome Documentation: https://esphome.io/

Useful links from the ESPHome documentation:

https://esphome.io/components/binary_...
https://esphome.io/guides/configurati...
https://esphome.io/guides/configurati...

Components used:

TTP223 Touch Button
HCSR501 PIR
Wemos D1 Mini ESP8266 Microcontroller
Dupont wires

You may sometimes need to install a USB driver so that you microcontroller is discovered in Windows. The most common driver is the CH341 Driver which can be downloaded from multiple locations, including this one:

https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcude...

00:00 Intro
00:28 What will be covered
00:51 What is ESPHome?
01:38 ESPHome AddOn Install
01:55 Set up your first ESPHome Device
04:32 Add new device as a Home Assistant Integration
05:43 Touch Button Example (TTP223)
06:35 Touch Button Wiring
07:55 PIR Example (HCSR501)
10:07 ESPHome YAML Config File
14:23 Wrapup

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