Looking for Some Best Microcontroller for a DIY Smart Home Project?

Have any of the Home Assistant / ESPHome gurus here had any luck with the Waveshare ESP32-C3 mini dev board
https://core-electronics.com.au/esp32-c3-mini-dev-board-iot-wifi-bluetooth.html and ESPHome?

I have a situation of the device is ‘online’ (ESPHome Builder page) yet it is ‘unavailable’ when I look at on the device page. It has a motion sensor attached and I get a ‘detected motion’ and ‘became unavailable’ for the exact same second I reboot it (although ‘online’).

Not had much luck searching the HomeAssistant website, tried numerous things unsuccessfully

  • board: esp32-c3-devkitc-02
  • static IP has been assigned
  • power_save_mode: none
  • fast_connect: true
    Beginning to wonder if the board is ‘too slow’ for my Wifi, but lower speed set to 1MB.

Any thoughts / ideas are much appreciated. Dave

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