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by gregmac 1225 days ago
I started out with Arduino but quickly switched to EspHome. There's just so much built in that you don't have to sort out:

* Wifi reconnect

* Mqtt (and HomeAssistant) integration, with reconnect

* Hotspot (initial configuration) support

* Tons of hardware devices supported

* Even for basic digital io, there's nice quality of life things a line of yaml away: debounce, internal pullup, invert..

Basically by my second or third experiment I found myself starting to build more reusable libraries to do stuff like wifi+mqtt reconnect. Thought "someone must have done this before" and found "Yes, plus went 1000 miles further and built EspHome"