pyscript VS meross-homeassistant

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.

Question for the meross crowed, is there a way to make it work with HA locally? I am currently using it in my HA using the Meross Homeassistant component, but it is a cloud based connection. It works well, but an just wondering if someone has it working locally rather than through a cloud integration.

At this point, I'm calling it a loss on the switches and those 8" LED lights since the Meross plug-in for HA seems somewhat incomplete reading the various posts and a dedicated person on github getting local, non-cloud communication working.