I built the energy monitor using Home assistant and ESPHome

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I got this lovely SeeedStudio XIAO 7.5" ePaper display, and I wanted to visualise my energy consumption in a less limiting way. Thanks to Home Assistant, ESPHome and some cool tricks, I made it happen

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Table of Contents:
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00:00 - Intro
00:30 - playing with ePaper displays
01:20 - energy harvesting and dashboards
02:10 - SeeedStudio XIAO 7.5" ePaper
04:00 - warnings are given!
04:40 - how to use SeeedStudio XIAO 7.5" ePaper with ESPHome and Home Assitant
08:30 - designing dashboard layout
09:30 - how do I get my data into Home Assistant
10:10 - explaining my yaml files
16:50 - what's next
17:55 - conclusions

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Music:
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Hip Jazz by Benjamin Tissot - www.bensound.com
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