HomeAssistant+ ESPHome + ESP32 in particular is a good stack because it takes away most of the complexity. Common sensors have ESPHome code available with a quick google so just need to connect the wires right basically
Would have been a nicer fit (smaller bevel) than the LCD in this project at about the same cost.
For BLE you can use STM32s and Nordics. But Wifi-on-Chip is ESP32-only.
Love the project - would have been great when my kiddos were that age.
I noticed there seems to be a use-after-return with the creds returned from CredentialManager::retrieveCredentials (C-arrays can't be passed/returned by value). One solution could be to return Arduino Strings instead
