My Preferred Smart Home Vendors

1. esphome

   1 229 8,811 9.9 C++

   ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

   

   I think OP put a few restrictions they could relax a bit.

   I use Meross devices with krahabb's wonderful LAN integration (https://github.com/krahabb/meross_lan). It requires a specific pairing process of the device, but not any firmware reflash.

   Relaxing an extra bit, one can flash many devices with ESP Home (https://esphome.io/) - an excellent cistom firmware. Its only flaw is that the captive portal does not work well after an upgrade (something that is hanging in the bugs section and nobody cares)

2. SaaSHub

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3. meross_lan

   2 4 485 9.6 Python

   Home Assistant integration for Meross devices

   

   I think OP put a few restrictions they could relax a bit.

   I use Meross devices with krahabb's wonderful LAN integration (https://github.com/krahabb/meross_lan). It requires a specific pairing process of the device, but not any firmware reflash.

   Relaxing an extra bit, one can flash many devices with ESP Home (https://esphome.io/) - an excellent cistom firmware. Its only flaw is that the captive portal does not work well after an upgrade (something that is hanging in the bugs section and nobody cares)

4. ruuvi-hass.io

   3 1 41 0.0 Python

   Ruuvi tag BLE sensor for Home Assistant.

   

   There’s apparently a custom HACS integration [0]. Personally I’d get the cheaper Aqara sensors as I have a Zigbee network anyway, so I see no advantage in BLE. Also, the motion sensor (of the tag, not of other people) seems like a really useless feature.

   [0]: https://github.com/ruuvi-friends/ruuvi-hass.io

5. Node RED

   4 206 20,243 9.5 JavaScript

   Low-code programming for event-driven applications

   

   If you are going to go down the automation rabbit hole, I highly recommend looking at Node-RED. https://nodered.org/

6. ble_monitor

   5 11 1,951 8.2 Python

   BLE monitor for passive BLE sensors

   

   FWIW, if your HASS is running on a device (like a Raspberry Pi) that has Bluetooth, you might be able to get away with a custom component like https://github.com/custom-components/ble_monitor instead. Of course, if your setup is working for you already there isn't much incentive to change it.

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