Some of my ESPHome projects involve e-ink displays and the layout can require lots of iterations. (Although the excellent ESPHome Display Designer helps a lot with layout.)
I run my Home Assistant node on a raspberry pi and for most things this is fantastic. However, the compile/link/deploy loop has been painfully slow for me. So I decided to take a look at offloading this to my PC as it has significantly more horsepower.
I’m in a split world between my trusty Intel Mac Laptop and a Windows 11 desktop. I’ve been away from Windows for a long time, so I’m making a few notes for anyone who needs to solve similar issues. Bottom line was that I wanted to add some content to my blog where the static content is created using Hugo
I switched from Bear to Obsidian earlier this year for my general note taking. Obsidian lets you synchronise vaults (document repositories) via iCloud. So my blog authoring process has been to mount the Hugo directory as a vault via iCloud in Obsidian. When I then create new content using the Hugo command line :
