I am NOT looking forward to the MQTT breaking changes. With Z2M and 80+ Zigbee devices it is going to be awful if there aren’t any good tools to help with naming transition.

No, it’s throwing names you need to change

Is there any alternative to ESPresence I can add to existing ESPHome devices? Some solution building around private BLE (which I did set up, but I’m not using) and stuff? I have quite a few ESPHome based devices doing their work and not using Bluetooth around my home.

That wouldn’t really work for treacking Apple devices since they randomize their MAC addresses. Which is why I’ve added them using private ble integration in HA. It is able to detect their presence (or lack of it) via my ESPHome devices which are set up as Bluetooth proxies. What I would like though is know which room are they in - I have an ESP32 device in pretty much every room, and I wish I could leverage them without adding dedicated ESPresence ones.

Wait what?

Wow

He was asking about satellites, the end devices that have mics/speakers.

Or tell the courier to leave the package in whatever place I ask them to.

Yup, same here. Sometimes they wouldn’t bother to call, and would just take the package with them if I wouldn’t answer.

Whatever would support the combined max wattage of the devices you will connect to it. Ideally something that can handle 50-100% more power. You can control some UPSes via USB or network, so you can hook it up to that mini pc or Pi (why are they separate?) and run NUT on it. You could technically pause a print/shut down a computer/Pi if an outage is more than x seconds to reduce power usage and get through one that you otherwise couldn’t.