Another core update - another bunch of problems

I do love homeassistant - esphome even more. But there seem to be some “programmers” and “system architects” who try to improve the platform but manage to make it worse every once a while.
I don’t ask for help but I will stop updating any of your new releases !
Tom

Bad idea. You will want a new feature some time in the future and then find it is nearly impossible to update as you are so far behind.

Report the issue so it can be fixed. Then downgrade your system to the working version. Takes minutes at most.

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Do you have a specific problem you need help with?

Well where to start at ?

esp32_camera:
external_clock:
pin: GPIO0
frequency: 20MHz
i2c_pins:
sda: GPIO26
scl: GPIO27
data_pins: [GPIO5, GPIO18, GPIO19, GPIO21, GPIO36, GPIO39, GPIO34, GPIO35]
vsync_pin: GPIO25
href_pin: GPIO23
pixel_clock_pin: GPIO22
power_down_pin: GPIO32

used to work like that for months now. I know this module had some “startup problems” that seemed to be fixed.
Not any more and the current documentation seems to be wrong too. WHO IS ALLOWED to change such contents to the worse ?
([E][esp32_camera:123]: Setup Failed: ESP_ERR_NOT_FOUND)

Sources in the configured build paths disappeared - any reason for that ?

ESP32 modules that worked perfectly don’t any more. With one I had to develop a custom uart component as MODBUS RTU Component does not support “echoing” (i.e. receiver always enabled).

For me the only solution not to spend hours after every other update is to simply ignore new releases, maybe missing new features but at least keeping my infrastructure functional without investing hours. It is a pity as the idea and aim of esphome and home assistant are really great and many people enjoy the frameworks.

Tom

Well I love a stable system more than future improvements and better do ONE BIG STEP spending hours than being prepared for new problems every other day.

BTW there have been no core updates released recently. Did you perhaps mean the recently released Home Assistant operating system update (v11.2)?

Actually looking at your other post above it could even be an ESPHome update.

What exactly did you update?

From and to which versions?

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You are right i guess. It was the installation of the latest ESPHome version 2023.11.6 causing the problems. I will try to rollback.
Thank you for your assistance !

Do you remember which version you update from?