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ESPHome, Home Assistant Integration, Networking & Connectivity

ESPHome Native API vs MQTT: Which Should You Use with Home Assistant?

ESPHome Native API vs MQTT compared for Home Assistant: setup, latency, discovery, encryption, availability, broker dependence, offline behaviour, Bluetooth Proxy, retained messages and when to use each.

panakos
22 September 2026

ESP32 Boards & Modules

ESP RainMaker Neo with ESP32: What It Is and Who Should Use It

Quick Summary (TL;DR):ESP RainMaker Neo, announced by Espressif on 5 August 2026, is an open-source device-to-cloud-to-phone IoT platform for ESP32 products. It is much more than an ESP32 library: the Neo stack includes the device firmware SDK, AWS serverless cloud…

panakos
2 September 2026