[jcims]

Well check this out, thank you! I was going to before but Tasmota was so dead simple and i had all the logic offboard anyway. But I like some of the points you mentioned that would help with automation of building out new ones. Thanks!

BTW I can’t say enough good stuff about node-red for automation. It has been great. I tie it into into influxdb for telemetry and it has a nice little dashboard feature for process monitoring. All with almost zero code.

[gibs0ns]

Node-red is indeed great, and useful even for novice users that can't code, while still being powerful for power users that want to write JS.

I run Home Assistant (on their Hassio OS) on a raspberry pi2, which includes integration for Tasmota, ESPHome, Node-red, MQTT server, influxdb, plex server, presence detection, and more, all through a polished web ui. I highly recommend it if you're looking to tie together a bunch of IoT devices. For me it has become my central location to manage all my "smart" home devices, and is essentially the glue that holds it all together while providing a pleasant UX for managing it all. With the integration of Node-red, it provides nodes that represent your Home Assistant based sensors/switches so you can easily read/write their values within your Node-red flow.