Turn cheap ESP32 boards into Home Assistant Bluetooth proxies and fill your home with low-cost BLE sensors: Govee H5075 and H5100 thermometers, Shelly BLU H&T, door, motion and button sensors, SwitchBot meters, iBeacon tags for presence, plus the best ESP32 boards to run as proxies, with verified Amazon links.
Build your own ESP32 weather station: a reed-switch weather meter kit with anemometer, wind vane and rain gauge, BME280 and SHT31 sensors, a tipping-bucket rain gauge, a 0-5V anemometer, LTR390 UV, BH1750 light and AS3935 lightning sensors, and solar radiation shields, with wiring tips and verified Amazon links.
Measure home and device energy use with ESP32 hardware: the Emporia Vue 3 and Shelly Pro EM, Pro 3EM, PM Mini and EM Mini whole-home and circuit monitors, plus DIY parts including the PZEM-004T meter, SCT-013 CT clamps and INA219 and INA226 DC power sensors, with safety notes and verified Amazon links.
Everything you need to build an ESP32 automatic plant watering or garden irrigation system: multi-plant watering kits, capacitive soil moisture sensors, 12V brushless and peristaltic pumps, 12V solenoid valves, MOSFET drivers, flow sensors, float switches, tubing and power supplies, with wiring tips and verified Amazon links.
All-in-one ESP32 boards with a built-in touchscreen: the ESP32-2432S028R Cheap Yellow Display and its 2.8- and 3.5-inch siblings, capacitive ESP32-S3 upgrades, 5- and 7-inch Elecrow and Waveshare HMI panels, and round rotary and AMOLED displays, with LVGL tips and verified Amazon links.
ESP32-powered Zigbee coordinators and Thread border routers for Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and Matter: SMLIGHT SLZB-06, 06M, 06MG24, 06P7, MR1 and MR3 PoE adapters, M5Stack’s ESP32-S3 + ESP32-H2 Thread Border Router kit and Gateway H2 unit, and the XIAO ESP32-C6 for DIY builds, with radio chips explained and verified Amazon links.
Commercial smart home devices with ESP32 chips inside that you can run locally with Home Assistant or reflash with ESPHome or Tasmota: Sonoff MINIR4, BASICR4, POW Elite, TH Elite and NSPanel, Shelly 2PM Gen4, 1 Gen4 and H&T Gen3, and Seeed’s reTerminal E1001 e-paper display, with chip details, flashing notes and verified Amazon links.
The prototyping supplies every ESP32 maker needs: breadboards (and how to fit a wide ESP32 on them), jumper wires, 22 AWG solid wire, preformed jumpers, double-sided perfboards, a Dupont crimp tool and connector kit, pin headers, screw terminals, WAGO lever nuts, resistor and capacitor kits and heat shrink, with verified Amazon links.
Everything for ESP32-powered addressable lighting: GLEDOPTO and BTF-LIGHTING ESP32 WLED controllers (single and 4-channel, Wi-Fi and Ethernet), WS2812B, WS2815 and SK6812 RGBW strips, an LED matrix, 5V and 12V power supplies, connectors and aluminium channels, with power, level-shifting and wiring tips and verified Amazon links.
The best enclosures and project boxes for ESP32 projects: Zulkit and LeMotech IP65 boxes, a clear-cover box for displays, a hinged IP67 outdoor box, mini cases for XIAO and SuperMini boards, a DIN rail PCB carrier, cable glands, a breather vent, a sensor radiation shield and a standoff kit, with Wi-Fi, condensation and sizing tips and verified Amazon links.