Does SDL2 work with ESPHome add-on on MacOS?

ESPHome
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I’m trying to get the host: platform working with platform: sdl display, to quickly prototype a fairly big display project. This is on latest macOS running on Intel hardware, SDL2 installed using brew, but in ESPHome Builder editor the following yaml displays the error: " Unable to run sdl2-config - have you installed sdl2?."

display:
  - platform: sdl
    dimensions:
      width: 800
      height: 480

Does SDL2 work using ESPHome Builder web page with the add-on, or do I have to install command line ESPHome on my Mac?

Anyone else using this combination that has got it to work?

2

Add-ons run in a container, so have no access to the host libraries or display, so SDL won’t work in the add-on.

Just install ESPHome on your Mac with pip.

3

Thanks Clyde - I was fairly certain that was the case.