<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>balloob</author><text>If there are people reading this and are excited to try out ESPHome: try it out without writing a single line of configuration by installing some of our ready-made projects: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;esphome.io&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;esphome.io&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It allows you to turn a cheap microcontroller into a voice assistant, bluetooth proxy or media player directly from your browser.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions.&lt;p&gt;Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. Learn more at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;announcing-the-open-home-foundation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;announcing-the-open-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESPHome</title><url>https://esphome.io/index.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gazebra12</author><text>No questions, only praise. This project is simply awesome, I&amp;#x27;ve been astonished time and time again by the features. I had done a complete dive into the Espressif SDK trying to implement a wireless switch with temperature sensor and mqtt and had nearly finished the project when I stumbled on ESPHome obsoleting all of my work at once. It was just everything I had written so far plus many added features and obsoleted all my work at once.</text><parent_chain><item><author>balloob</author><text>One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions.&lt;p&gt;Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. Learn more at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;announcing-the-open-home-foundation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openhomefoundation.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;announcing-the-open-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ESPHome</title><url>https://esphome.io/index.html</url></story>