ESP-Now VS esphome

Compare ESP-Now vs esphome and see what are their differences.

ESP-Now

ESP-Now Examples (by HarringayMakerSpace)

esphome

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems. (by esphome)
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ESP-Now esphome
9 225
299 7,349
0.0% 3.9%
0.0 9.9
over 5 years ago 6 days ago
C++ C++
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ESP-Now

Posts with mentions or reviews of ESP-Now. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-01.

esphome

Posts with mentions or reviews of esphome. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ESP-Now and esphome you can also consider the following projects:

ESPresense - An ESP32 based node for gathering indoor positioning and transmitting to mqtt

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

esp-homekit - Apple HomeKit accessory server library for ESP-OPEN-RTOS

tuya-convert - A collection of scripts to flash Tuya IoT devices to alternative firmwares

Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

IRremoteESP8266 - Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/

micropython-nanoweb - Full async Micropython web server with small memory footprint.

openhab-distro - The binary distribution of openHAB

fingerprint-mqtt - Fingerprint sensor with MQTT support based on Adafruit Fingerprint Sensor Library

hassio-zigbee2mqtt - Hass.io add-on for zigbee2mqtt

esp8266_milight_hub - Replacement for a Milight/LimitlessLED hub hosted on an ESP8266