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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/voxmatt on 2024-06-27 15:08:30+00:00.

Hi team, I think I know the answer to this, but is there anyway to use ESP32 hardware with ESPHome on it as nodes in ESPresense?

Both run on ESP32 hardware and ESPHome has some support for BLE Presense, so it *feels* like there should be some way to hack the two together, but based on what I can find, it seems the answer is “no”?

More specifically, I have some cheap ESP32 boards with ESPresense on them, but then also recently bought some Apollo Automation MSR-2 for mmWave. As you might imagine, I’d strongly prefer to just have the MSR-2s in a room instead of also adding an ESPresense ESP32 in the same room.

(Tangent: the real-world applications of the ESPresense setup are kind of… lackluster. And the setup is pretty involved (procedurally, it’s easy, but there’s a lot of work in getting a node in *every* room and then tweaking the signal to get it just right). So the juice really doesn’t feel worth the squeeze, but the completionist in me is still determined… bah.)