ESPHome Native API server library.

Espex implements the ESPHome Native API protocol over TCP, letting an Elixir application expose itself as an ESPHome device to clients such as Home Assistant. The wire protocol, connection lifecycle, and optional Noise-encrypted transport all live here; hardware is plugged in through behaviours.

Documentation map

• Architecture — supervision tree, the connection/dispatch split, wire protocol, encryption, and the push_state/2 broadcast path
• Entity types — per-type cookbook for the common ESPHome entities (Switch, BinarySensor, Sensor, Button, Light, Cover, Climate) with proto structs and example snippets
• Espex.SerialProxy, Espex.ZWaveProxy, Espex.InfraredProxy, Espex.EntityProvider, Espex.Mdns — the five behaviours, each with callback reference and a complete example adapter

Quick start

Start under your own supervision tree:

children = [
  {Espex,
   device_config: [name: "my-device", friendly_name: "My Device"],
   serial_proxy: MyApp.MySerialAdapter,
   zwave_proxy: MyApp.MyZWaveAdapter,
   infrared_proxy: MyApp.MyInfraredAdapter,
   entity_provider: MyApp.MyEntities}
]

Supervisor.start_link(children, strategy: :one_for_one)

Any adapter key you omit disables that feature. For encrypted transport, set :psk on :device_config:

device_config: [
  name: "my-device",
  psk: "foIclFXDcBlfzi9oQNegJz/uRG/sgdIc956pX+GrC+A="
]

For the full start option list see Espex.Supervisor.

Pushing state

Call push_state/2 from anywhere in your application to broadcast an entity state update to every currently-connected client:

Espex.push_state(%Espex.Proto.SensorStateResponse{
  key: 1003,
  state: 21.3,
  missing_state: false
})