esphome VS ESPresense

Compare esphome vs ESPresense and see what are their differences.

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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esphome ESPresense
225 4
7,349 946
3.9% 4.0%
9.9 8.9
7 days ago 10 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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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.

ESPresense

Posts with mentions or reviews of ESPresense. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing esphome and ESPresense you can also consider the following projects:

ESP-Now - ESP-Now Examples

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

OpenBK7231T_App - Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) for BK7231T, BK7231N, BL2028N, T34, XR809, W800/W801, W600/W601 and BL602