Simply a “head’s up” for those of you who use the “ESP Home + Hubitat” community integration:
In the past couple of days, an update to the ESPHome firmware on RatGDO was released that cannot communicate with this Hubitat community integration. Home Assistant released a bunch of updates that, taken together, allow Home Assistant to communicate with the new ESPHome firmware, which apparently encrypts the communications with RatGDO.
Personally, I use HADB to bring ESPHome devices like RatGDO into Hubitat, and I specifically do things that way for devices that aren’t natively supported on Hubitat, because they are supported and development and maintenance continues for those devices on Home Assistant. It’s not a knock on Hubitat, just a choice of the right tool for each device. All of my automations are on Hubitat, just oddball devices, unsupported on Hubitat, sit on Home Assistant.
Anyway, just a “head’s up” not to do the RatGDO firmware update until an update occurs to the ESPHome driver on Hubitat.
Here is the RatGDO firmware version that can’t talk to the Hubitat ESPHome community driver:
