Esphome is amazing with home assistant!. Build a climate control with it for my server room for example. Pure esphome sensors and relays on a single board.

Please dont do step 4. Devs will get heart attacks left and right if they see that piece of shit code.

If you do decide to look in to containers again and get stuck please make a post. We are glad to help out. A tip I can give you when asking for help. Tell the system you are using and how. Docker with compose files or portainer or something else etc. If using compose also add the yaml file you are using.

How come? What do you use to run them and what is it you have a hard time with?

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