Athom WS2812B V2 not showing in ESPHome dashboard

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Hi,

Just got a new Athom WS2812B ledstrip controler that is pre flashed with ESPHome.

Got it connected to the wifi and the notification in HA was show after some time.
Clicked the configure button and it was added to the entity list.
It is also shown in Integrations, but for some reason not in the ESPHome dashboard.

I can see that the project name is ‘athom.ws2812bv2’, but that one does not seem to exist in the github configuration list: GitHub - athom-tech/athom-configs: Athom Technology Official Center

Anybody any idea how to fix this, so it shows up in the ESPHome dashboard?
Now I can’t make changes…

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in the list of projects there is a bad look you

Add code to new esphome project

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That config is the older project name ‘athom.ws2812b’ without the v2.

There is no configuration file with the project name ‘athom.ws2812bv2’, so the ingress fails somewhere.
Sadly I can’t see any error in the logs.

If there is a way to add the config yaml file manually with the correct settings that would be great. But I have no idea if that’s possible.

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I presume this is your post on the athom forum https://www.athom.tech/forum/esphome-related-1/athom-ws2812b-v2-config-not-found

Not very helpful are they :slight_smile:

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I just copied the yaml from the github and made a new device in esphome dashboard with it and changed the name to suit. Then flashed OTA.
I can’t remember but think I might have found the IP from my router and added use_address, and the SSID and password to the config so it found the right one

Looks like the difference in V1 V2 is that the output is GPIO1 and not GPIO2 after Jan 2022

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Thanks for the replies. Athom support is not very helpful indeed.
There is not a good way of knowing what exactly changed in the hardware from v1 to v2, so it’s tricky to use the v1 yaml.
Will have a try by creating a new device.