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Future ESPHome Project Ideas

Please post ideas for future starter kit expansions, modules, other ESPHome based hardware projects you think will help ESPHome.

These should be based around making ESPHome easier to use, learning/teaching, making your own devices

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Didgeridrew·about 2 months ago(edited)

I don't know if this would belong as an advanced tab in "Play a Tune" or as part of Everyday Use...

Playing one tune is fun, but having to edit and recompile to play different ones gets annoying pretty quickly. So, the first thing I did after running through the tutorials was to move the RTTTL action from "Play a Tune" to a more flexible API action and created an HA script to be able to play from a selection of different tunes.

Here's a script blueprint I put together:
https://gist.github.com/Didgeridrew/11d76d824fb2dd4292cdb47e2b1d4c5e

Maybe that will make it easier for users to take advantage of the RTTTL functionality for more than just playing one tune.

Tom (or family)·about 2 months ago

Ahead of my family suggesting,
- mmwave (presence) - but that might be advanced (if you take ld24xx with their multiple zones)
- tof (time of flight)
And for learning addressing LEDs would be nice, but well, there is WLED.

PHP·about 2 months ago

For now, whatever comes with the kit seems like a great starting point. However, if I can choose one more thing to add it would be a 4 digits LED display, something people can use to show the current temperature or time.