Esphome 2026.1.0 zigbee nrf52 (from reddit)

[thyttan]

https://esphome.io/changelog/2026.1.0/#zigbee-support-for-nrf52

Esphome port for the Bangle.JS2? Could be interesting

[gfwilliams]

Interesting - thanks! BTHome with ESPHome works great with Bangle.js to get data from the Bangle, but we've really been missing a way to send data to it (best I found was having it emulate a lightbulb).

It might be possible to use https://github.com/espruino/BangleJS2BareMetal to get at least a minimal display showing with ESPHome

Personally I'd still really like to add an Espruino integration to home assistant that'd let you send/receive data via the Nordic UART BLE attribute - it's just quite a steep learning curve making HA addons.