addon-node-red VS pyscript

It's usually enabled by default: https://addons.community/

Awesome. Have a look at Visual Studio Code Add-On, Node-Red, and Ad-Guard , you can do some really powerful stuff with these.

It is possible, and a few years ago seemed quite a trend (just going by /r/homeassistant spectating) - https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red - but I gather HA's own automation scripting has at least visualisation if not GUI programming now.

node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket is considered the canonical, it's the one built into the community Node-Red plugin. https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red

You could use Home Assistant, combined with the Octoprint integration and Node-Red addon.

3) Again, already there. ESPHome is a first class citizen in HA.

I feel like you've not read the HA docs [1,] or took the time to understand the architecture [2]. And, for someone who has more than enough self-proclaimed skills, this should be a very understandable system.

[0] https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript

I see someone else mentioned AppDaemon. I would try out pyscript first ( https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript ). It is just a some HACS install, and then you are good to go.

I highly recommend using this instead of the pretty awful built-in Python thing. Pyscript is just a TON better.

Sure! I use pyscript for the automation; here's the wiki page I made.

Sounds like you might enjoy using Pyscript to write your automations. I also found Node-Red to be frustrating when I was starting off; Pyscript let's you write Python for everything and is super easy to follow IMO.