Hi,
To increase self consumption of solar energy we want to be able to turn on and off our AC units when we have access solar energy. since our old ish AC units (2008 and 2010) dont have wifi i ordered 2 ESP32-faikout boards. I was wondering if anyone is using these in combination with a Homey. I prefer not to use HA as a bridge. the board does allow MQTT so that would probably be possible.
Hi
You can request for support with the app dev of ESPHome Controller community app. Details are on the app page at the homey.app store.
Else, to use it with MQTT, you need to configure the ESP by entering required MQTT details (details which you’ll get after you have configured the MQTT ‘service’ @ your Homey)
https://codeberg.org/RevK/ESP32-Faikout/src/branch/main/Manuals/Setup.md
@ Homey, you’d install 3 community apps:
– Broker being the MQTT traffic agent (what goes where)
– Client being the MQTT message sender/receiver
– Hub being the tool to listen to / to control MQTT topics
MQTT Hub has the possibility of creating virtual MQTT devices, which can listen and send commands to the ESP32-Faikout MQTT topic.
This example is similar and should get you going:
