My buddy Romses is currently taking care of the Datenzwerg deployment at 38c3, and like at every event where we deploy them I’m updating our page and Grafana dashboard with the locations of the gnomes. So far the latter was always quite annoying: We have only the names of the gnomes in our influx data, and adding the location/deployment status to the graph thus meant having something like this for every single graph:...
I just spent several hours trying to figure out why ESPHome refused to compile a custom component I was working on. The error message I got was Compiling .pioenvs/datenzwerg-sleepy/src/esphome/components/sound_pressure/sound_pressure_sensor.c.o In file included from src/esphome/components/sound_pressure/sound_pressure_sensor.h:3, from src/esphome/components/sound_pressure/sound_pressure_sensor.c:1: src/esphome/core/component.h:3:10: fatal error: string: No such file or directory 3 | #include <string> | ^~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. Compiling .pioenvs/datenzwerg-sleepy/src/main.cpp.o *** [.pioenvs/datenzwerg-sleepy/src/esphome/components/sound_pressure/sound_pressure_sensor.c.o] Error 1 Other external and internal components compiled just fine, so that was quite a head scratcher, until I just finally noticed something in my source tree: my custom component’s source file had the file ending ....