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Have half a dozen M5Stack based devices using ESPHome. There's a big community supporting that. When I tried developing using an IDE found them more troublesome.

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ESPHome is really a game changer when it comes to developing IoT devices. Unless I'm working with some esoteric hardware like GPS or LoRA, I'll load ESPHome on the device for when I'm prototyping.

>IDE

Tried Platform.IO?

https://platformio.org/platformio-ide

As much as I despise IDE's for embedded systems development, I've become quite a fan of the PlatformIO IDE solution .. its quite comfortable, and being able to switch to PlatformIO-CLI tooling has made for a "best of both worlds" scenario.

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