[kkielhofner]

Thanks for mentioning noise! I've certainly looked at it before but our challenge is the sheer scope of what we're doing. Not to mention (similar to WebRTC that people have asked about) I'm not completely understanding the fit and benefit for our use case and application.

I talk about websockets because they achieve our mission and goal (in this case shaving milliseconds off command -> action -> confirmation) with robust, battle-tested client implementations already available in the ESP framework libraries. Same thing for MQTT. Both are supported by Home Assistant (and almost everything else in the space) today.

Because of this existing framework support, we'll have websockets done today-ish. Then we can (for now) move on to all of the other things people have asked for :). Hah, priorities!

Not saying Noise won't/can't ever happen - just that this is a very ambitious project as it stands and we have plenty of work to do all over the place :)!

Want to write a noise implementation for ESP IDF :)?