OpenWrt Ubus with ESP-NOW and KASA Smart home devices IOT Network

ya, I prefer to roll my own. home assistant is far to generic for my use cases. And just for note, the esp8266 works just fine with esp-now, and in my setup the openwrt side of things doesn't care who is sending, it just wants the data in the correct format, who is sending it for the most part is unbeknown to ubus.