ESPHome on Raspberry Pi Pico W

ESPHome on RPi Pico W?! Why?
Because we can - and most of the things we do - we do because we can. Raspberry Pi Pico W is cheap board that can now power your ESPHome project too - if you can't find ESP8266 or ESP32, maybe you can source Pico W.

All open issues that were present at the time of the recoding have been fixed - mDSN and encyrption.

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Few disclaimers and requirements
02:04 - Installing ESPHome DEV version if needed
03:35 - ESPHome code for Pico W
04:21 - Preparing Pico W
04:38 - Installing firmware
06:23 - What can you do with Pico W and ESPHome

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[parentpj]

The Pico W is cheaper in South Africa right now, I have a couple that I use to learn on, now I can use it with ESPHome as well, that is great news.
It opens options, and options are always good.
Thanks for the video.

[calculon]

Thanks for this tutorial! There's so many esp32 vs. pi Pico articles out there that are all useless because they were written before the Pico W existed.

[smartifi_egypt]

I didn't know that, thanks so much for the information 😍👍
Quick search I found that it is a bit more expensive than ESP 32 (here in Egypt), didn't compare performance or power efficiency but anyway it is always good to have many choices.
Thank you ESPhome awesome guys, I hope to see Matter implementation in your awesome project.

[ronm]

Thanks B.T. I think it is a great idea to have it available.

[MakeItWorkTech]

What the heck is ESPHome?!?! 🤣
Great video, makes me want to try it out haha

[AllenRobberson]

Awesome video. I always learn from you

[zippeveryone]

I would love to see a BME 280 sensor readout and integration example with HA. Ive already done a BME 280 project (Local with a 2040 chip on a special board) but i havent triet to integrate it with HA yet :)

[nks]

Nice Video!!! i will just wait for the stable to compare my esp32alarm vs rpipicow alarm

[Muppetkeeper]

Hello fine sir, thanks for your video. Do you know if this is in the full version yet?

[wirytiox]

thank you, can you show us a video about running python scripts in a pico using esphome? (maybe it could be interesting because of raspberry pi having 2 cores, with libraries and all could be awesome)

[adifoto]

Nice, i wonder what the use case will be compared to esp 32 or 8266. Thanks for the video.

[jonneymendoza]

Can you edit the firmware that Home assist creates? The reason why i ask is because i want to also use the pimoroni breakout garden firmware/libraries

[roaralmas]

Tested OK, but I only get a zero-value returned when defining a sensor of type wifi_signal... This works OK on both ESP32 and ESP8266

[MrBobWareham]

You don't mean that you run the esp home server on the pico, do you???

[iainhay]

Interesting, I need no excuse to tinker with another device!

[EmilePolka]

looking at the specs, pico w is basically as better as eps8266 can do. comparing it to esp32 is basically no contest at all, esp32 is hell a lot better.

as for the price, this pico w is stupidly expensive. if your planning to use it for IOT devices, just get yourself a cheap esp32 and save your wallet and sanity a million times.

[tubeDude]

1) What a pain to setup! 2) Temperature is built-in.