{"id":11240,"date":"2021-05-08T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T17:15:38","slug":"esphome-and-the-waveshare-e-paper-esp8266-esp32-driver-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11240","title":{"rendered":"ESPHome and the Waveshare E-Paper ESP32 &#038; ESP8266 Driver Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11241\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-1024x505.jpg\" alt=\"E-Paper displays\" width=\"550\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-1536x757.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210508_172015_8-2048x1010.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having recently setup a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/\">Home Assistant<\/a> server (in getting ready to move home) I&#8217;ve been playing with <a href=\"https:\/\/esphome.io\/\">ESPHome<\/a> as a way to easily integrate my projects into the home.<\/p>\n<p>With a view to make life a little easier for the next person I&#8217;ve included some sample config below which can be used with the Waveshare E-Paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waveshare.com\/wiki\/E-Paper_ESP32_Driver_Board\">ESP32<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waveshare.com\/wiki\/E-Paper_ESP8266_Driver_Board\">ESP8266<\/a> Driver Boards (of note are the pin configurations and the platform type for the ESP32).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found that as mentioned in the documents the 7.5&#8243; v2 display really does require an ESP32 to drive it even if you&#8217;ve managed to get it working with other projects on the ESP8266. Additionally the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/esphome\/ESPHome-Flasher\">ESPHome-Flasher<\/a> tool delivers much more consistent results on an ESP32 when performing the initial flash.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>ESP32<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-gist\"><script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jamesfed\/ee7df967e5ab7a77f979bc8226a1f0e2.js\"><\/script><noscript>View the code on <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jamesfed\/ee7df967e5ab7a77f979bc8226a1f0e2\">Gist<\/a>.<\/noscript><\/div>\n<h2>ESP8266<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-gist\"><script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jamesfed\/cb9092b2108d794d75cabdbc24cd1cc7.js\"><\/script><noscript>View the code on <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/jamesfed\/cb9092b2108d794d75cabdbc24cd1cc7\">Gist<\/a>.<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently setup a Home Assistant server (in getting ready to move home) I&#8217;ve been playing with ESPHome as a way to easily integrate my projects into the home. With a view to make life a little easier for the next person I&#8217;ve included some sample config below which can be used with the Waveshare E-Paper ESP32 and ESP8266 Driver&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11240\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,504],"tags":[507,482,530,531],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-microelectronics","tag-esp32","tag-esp8266","tag-esphome","tag-home-assistant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11249,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions\/11249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}