Monitor Equipment Temps with the Dallas Temp Sensors, ESPHome, Home Assistant and Grafana

I use TWO Dallas (DS18B20) Temp sensors on ONE ESP8266 to monitor power supply and radio heat sink temperatures. I graph them in Home Assistant using Grafana and flash the 8266 using ESPHome.


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Links
ESPHome Dallas Temp Sensor: https://esphome.io/components/sensor/...
ESP8266 Reference: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp82...

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Why?
02:42 Solder all the things!
13:38 Initial flashing of board
15:27 Add Dallas sensor config
20:22 Add integration in Home Assistant
22:25 Add sensors to Grafana
24:31 Wrap and final thoughts

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