The wizard will guide you through creating your first configuration and, depending on your browser, install it on your ESP device. You should now be greeted by a nice introduction wizard which will step you through If you see “502: Bad Gateway” it is currently starting, and you can refresh the page after a couple of seconds. Click “Start” and then click “Open Web UI”.

If you do not have the official ESPHome add-on repository added you can add with this button:Īfter that, wait a bit until it is installed (this can take a while). Open it using the following button then click on INSTALL: The ESPHome Dashboard can be installed as a Home Assistant add-on, which you can find in the add-on store in the Supervisor panel.

Devices or sensors added in ESPHome’s configuration will automatically show up in Home Assistant’s UI.

It reads in a YAML configuration file and creates custom firmware which it installs on your ESP device. In this guide we’ll go through how to install ESPHome on a device using the ESPHome Dashboard, installed as a Home Assistant add-on.īut first, here’s a very quick introduction to how ESPHome works:ĮSPHome is a tool which aims to make managing your ESP boards as simple as possible. Getting Started with ESPHome and Home Assistant ¶

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