Hi, I received my first esp’s today and I try to flash esp home on one of them without success. I follow the official guides and use the ESP Home web app to flash to the usb connected board. Using Mac I downloaded the correct driver and it’s recognized by the machine. I then try to install for firs…

you can do it through a compatible browser without HS https://web.esphome.io/ EDIT sorry you’ve already done that lol

This is how far I’ve gotten through the manual installation btw: [image] It’s been stuck like this for ca 30mins now…

I tried that indeed :smiley: no luck

How much memory does your Pi have?

Not as much as I want it to have… 1GB (RPI 3 B+ I think)

Not enough memory to compile Esphome using the add-on. You could increase your swap-file to 2 GB

I think I managed to get to the next step at least. The board I bought is a D1 mini ESP8266. When I created a device through the dashboard for ESP8266 I noticed that in the configuration was set to esp01_1m by default. I connected the esp to the pi directly and changed the config to this: [image] …

[image] francisp: increase your swap-file to 2 GB Not sure how I can do that… Or what that means haha. Do you have a reference?

I started the Home Assistant journey with an RPI3B+, too. And it was unable to work with ESPHome. I did have some success with Tazmota and MQTT for the couple simple projects I tried. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pointers, since my exploration into Tazmota was so minimal and quite a while ago.

Cannot flash ESPHome to ESP8266

ESPHome

francisp (Francis) June 21, 2024, 2:57am 14