Sunsetting support for IDF 4.x
At the beginning of this year, we made the transition from IDF 4.4 to IDF 5.1; this was a major upgrade and many changes were necessary within ESPHome to achieve this.
Keith Burzinski
2 posts by Keith Burzinski
About the removal of support for custom components
ESPHome’s “custom component” mechanism was a holdover from Home Assistant’s feature by the same name. It existed before external components and offered a way to “hack in” support for devices which were not officially supported by ESPHome.
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