Can somebody please help me yaml file to esp8266?

ESPHome
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i´ve got a lot of trouble configuring my esp8266 in esphome builder… not even the standard flashing procedure is succesful… tried some thing but they didn´t work out…

my goal is to implement wvc-800 life r3 kaideng inverter and it was already done by a german called gernot althammer… GernotAlthammer/HA-ESPHome-WVC-Inverter: HA ESPHome code for KaiDeng WVC-600/700/800-Life Micro Inverters

can somebody help me out? i´m not a total noob and did some cool stuff in past but i would like to get some help this time. i can´t get it to work… thx…

in my understanding i just have to edit the yaml file this guy wrote to my esp but this is the problem i have. ereverytime i fix one error tghere is the next… gonna upload some pictures here…

but at first:

this error is showing up if i wanna do the standard setup. hardware is nodemcu esp8266 12-F

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found something on reddit. didn´t work out either (use update all button before compiling)

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What machine are you using for compilation?

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laptop win 11.

homeassistant on raspberry 3b+

i´m edititng the yaml file of my esp found in my builder… then click on install…

at the moment i´m still having prblems with the basic configuration as you see. the esp is only prepared with webflasher… the standard installl even fails after that as u can see in picture above… thats nothing edited…

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this fails :frowning:

i bought other esp8266 for that my old ones were cp2102 wich was even more trouble… new ones are ch340 working better…

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If you are running Esphome builder as an addon on the RPI 3b+ you are very unlikely to have much success. It’s a bit short on RAM. It would be better to run it on the Win11 machine.

https://esphome.io/guides/installing_esphome/

It’s a little more involved on a PC requiring using CLI.

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thank u very much… a few moments i thought about the error message… its the ram of the pi… i came to the conclusion myself…

i´ve got another laptop with vm homeassistant. i will try…

but the project. the project i wanna built will still be problematic… i hope i´ll get some help here…

gonna try now and then post here… thx

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You do not have to run the add on.
You can just install the esphome cli and do the same in your laptop via CLI.

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I started HA using a Pi 3b+ and over time it just couldn’t keep up and its pretty common for people to have issues flashing esp boards from the Esphome addon because of memory issues. I used to have to go to my addon page and temporarily stop other addons to free up memory and then i could flash the board, then go turn things back on… Its a real pain in the a55 and the one thing i strongly recommend doing is ditching the Pi 3b+ and get a Pi 4b at the minimum or better yet, get a Pi5.

If you dont have either a Pi4 or Pi5 and would need to buy one then id suggest just seeking a mini pc instead. For a little more money than a Pi5 you can get a much faster mini pc.