Emily

I have looked to do custom boards with BMP280, but it's a pain as looks like either have to buy a break out board (like from Adafruit and others), or...

I have to admit, from a security standpoint, ESPHome long term may be a safer place to be? Right now there's really no password protection or ssl, right? So anyone...

> While I use ESPHome, I do not think integration is worthwhile. ESPresence is so simple to deploy and manage. There is no need to add the complexity of ESPHome....

> Good discussion - pros and cons with both approaches. The simplicity of this project, with web-based programming of the ESP is a great feature. Adding a few simple sensors...

Didn't want to drill a hole in the generator, and we're lucky where we are we don't need to lock it, so created a simple SMA antenna mount to replace...

Running into this as well.

Just found this, adding a + to this too as monitor our chicken coop, so would love a generic chicken icon vs a "bird" or a food item

That second one looks a lot better to me!