Getting started with ESPHome

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 HC-SR501 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/nodemcu-de... 00:00 Intro 00:28 What will be covered 00:51 What is ESPHome? 01:38 ESPHome Add-On 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 (HC-SR501) 10:07 ESPHome YAML Config File 14:23 Wrap-up #esphome #homeassistant