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Just read about this and was wondering if anyone has tried it. Pros/cons/notes? This seems pretty neat on the surface and I plan on trying it myself.

https://github.com/francescopace/espectre/tree/main

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All I get after following the documentation, is a compiler error:

CMake Error at /data/external_components/fd3660ad/src/cpp/espectre_git_version.cmake:62 (message):  
  Unable to resolve ESPectre version from git describe, and the SDK header is  
  not stamped.  Fetch numeric tags (`git fetch --tags`), pass  
  -DESPECTRE_GIT_VERSION=..., or set ESPECTRE_GIT_VERSION in the environment.  
  fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.  
Call Stack (most recent call first):  
  /data/external_components/fd3660ad/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt:101 (include)  
  /data/external_components/fd3660ad/src/cpp/frontend/esphome/components/espectre/CMakeLists.txt:6 (include)  
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!  
cmake failed with exit code 1, output of the command is in the /data/build/testesp/build/log/idf_py_stderr_output_12018 and /data/build/testesp/build/log/idf_py_stdout_output_12018  
ERROR Component discovery failed  

Edit: Managed to work around it. Now it actually detects movement! Just be aware this project looks like it's cooked up with a lot of AI assistance. There's a million pages of documentation, mostly convoluted and repetitive while telling slightly different things to do... And a compiler error is never a good first impression... It seems to work, though!

Now I have to find a few spare ESPs, which aren't already doing BLE or something, and see what kind of strain it puts on my wifi network.

[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, yes And YES!!

This is really great. Grab some boards with an external antenna, I guess the S3 variants are the best.

This guy is really active and thorough.

Home Assistant integration is a wip, right now the cyd is a topic.

Star, follow and try it!

[–] manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Awesome. Good to hear good things about it. I have some spare ESPs laying around to try this on so I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well shit... There goes my weekend...