I’ve been tinkering with some ESPHome flashed devices the last few days, and started working on a binding communicating via the Native API.
Is there any interest in this, and are you willing to contribute? 
Arne
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Great idea. I have several spare ESP-01S that can be used to test.
You mean, you’re willing to work on a binding for esphome?
I have a bunch of sensors laying around that esphome has great compatibility with that I would be more than glad to help test
The way I read it, @seime is going to add support to openHAB for speaking ESPhome’s native API, not the other way around.
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I’m using OH4, is this jar compatible ?
Dont think so, no addons.xml yet. I’ll add one in a few days.
An easy way to integrate micro-controller powered sensors into OH would be great! A couple years ago, I managed to build a light sensor on a esp8266 and using MQTT to connect, it still runs the lighting in my flat (using OH of course). But I very quickly ended up over my head and became frustrated.
I had looked at espeasy and a few others but JustinG mentioning ESPHome a couple months ago prompted me to take another look. I found the instructions found here for installing the web interface in a Docker to be the easiest way to get started. Instead of the API built for HA, I just used my already running MQTT server.
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Ain’t that the truth. Though I persisted and now I’m having fun with presence sensors, atmospheric sensors and some other bits and bobs.
Having esphome would be simply amazing thanks to the amount of work the devs have put into it and the ease of adopting new devices.
I’m looking forward to this 
The dashboard can be installed as an HA add-in. Does the OP plan such integration for OH?
For me, the dashboard was very intuitive and gave many more visual cues then the arduino IDE. It made commissioning multiple sensors around the flat super easy and over the air updates are cooked in. It asks a few simple questions and then writes the initial yml file for you.
Good on ya 
For me, it provided enough successes that I got confident enough to go back to the Arduino IDE and attempt much more complex projects
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Do not know how to add another menu entry to mainui, anyone knows and want to contribute?
My plan is to add support for more types of devices, next out is probably the aircon type so i can get rid of Panasonic and Mitsubishi cloud services.
Cheers
What do you mean with another menu entry ?
I don‘t think we are going to have binding spcefic menu entries in mainUI, as they cannot be added or removed dynamically.
That‘s one of the reasons for existence of shelly manager servlet.
Those servlets can then be added to the tiles menu.
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I was thinking on the left hand menu. Not familiar with the Shelly approach, I know about the special link but found that in the docs, not via mainui.
I’ll check out tiles.
As said, that’s not dynamic so not possible I am afraid.