How to use your ESPHome devices @ Homey → without having to use additional hardware 24/7 (so, no Rpi / mini-pc or anything needed besides your wifi gear)
→ Initial version; feel free to point out the glitches, to suggest improvements, to add info I forgot ←
I’m not into buying mmWave sensors of €85,- and was interested to use my budget mmWave sensors directly with Homey, instead of using HomeAssistant as in-between
This can be achieved by using this Homey ESPhome app, by Baldhor:
First install and run ESPhome itself on your laptop/pc:
Here’s my local ESPhome page:
When it’s up and running:
- On Homey, to add or edit a ESPhome device, always start with the “add new device” and select ‘ESPhome’ to start the wizard
- Pick what you’d like to do:
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- Configure a new physical device
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- Update an existing physical device
Now go check it out the new manual / wiki made by @Baldhor !
App background and explanations:
- EDIT -
The following info is not of any use now, the wizard is completely rebuilt (as of Oct. 3 2023)
Configure a new physical device
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To start with a new device, you’ll have to get the IP address and the API encryption key from the
your_esphome_device.yaml -
now you’d see (all) the entities of the ESPhome device (It’s a normal HTML page in a "phone size screen, so we have to scroll quite a bit)
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scroll down to “List of unbind native capabilities”
(meaning, like, List of ESPhome device entities which are not yet added to the new or existing Homey virtual device) -
in the rows you see, look for the entity you’d like to add first
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for the FIRST entity you want to add:
select “Select a virtual device” and
select “Create a virtual device”
→ Optional: you can edit the name afterwards, while it becomes the virtual device name -
for the NEXT entities you want to add: scroll to the right, and
select “Select a virtual device” and
select your virtual device from the list (which is the name of the 1st entity you added - you can always rename your device after creation);
this way you’ll build one Homey virtual device with several capabilities -
scroll up to the list of virtual devices
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In the entity’s row, you’ll have to select a matching Homey capability; i.e. for Occupancy, I chose “alarm_motion”
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- in the ‘title’ field column, you can enter a custom entity name if you like, and you can change available settings to your liking
- in the ‘title’ field column, you can enter a custom entity name if you like, and you can change available settings to your liking
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to ‘confirm’ settings, click inside an other field or on a tick box
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now, go to the next entity you’d like to add, start again from point: “for the next entities you want to add…”
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when all’s set, scroll down and hit “Confirm”
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now your ESPhome device gets created
Update an existing physical device
- add a ‘new’ ESPhome device to enter the wizard
- select “Update an existing physical device”
- select the IP address of the existing device
- hit “Select”
- find yourself in the same screen as when you were adding this device. You can add entities, edit or delete capabilities
