yamdwich@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices
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8 months agoIt’s not needed, and you can run it separately standalone if you do want it as well.
It’s not needed, and you can run it separately standalone if you do want it as well.
I used both, I ended up settling on searxng because Whoogle seemed to be unable to retain my settings. Might be something with my cookie configuration, but searxng has no problem remembering my preferences. If that is not a problem for you then they are comparable; Whoogle is pretty simple to get going and works well, searxng is slightly more complicated to set up (but not that much with docker) but has a ton more features.
Correct, the discovery process where you add them doesn’t actually involve the addon and works fine without it. The addon is just a wrapper for the standalone ESPhome web UI. It’s also not the only way to author and flash a config to a device, you can do it from any computer and on the command line.