Creating external components for ESPHome

Creating external components for ESPHome

There are diferent resources for creating components for ESPHome.

ESPhome architecture documentation provides a high level description on how to create a simple component. It also links to examples in a repository.

The examples provided describe simple components and some complex ones, using inheritance, for example to create a binary_output component out of a binary_sensor and an output component, or a text_sensor derivative out of a text_sensor.

Video tutorials

I will not go into them, I prefer blog tutorials

Blog tutorials

This tutorial is a comprehensive and informative resource, accompanied by a helpful video that provides additional insights and visual guidance.

This tutorial give some insights on how to break your component code in different pieces to avoid creating a huge __init__.py file.

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