ESP Home devices requesting 'Platform' Key

[redpis]

Just updated esphome and now I cant access the devices, error message:

INFO ESPHome 2024.6.1
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/cylinder-temp.yaml…
Failed config

ota.unknown: [source /config/esphome/cylinder-temp.yaml:27]

‘ota’ requires a ‘platform’ key but it was not specified.

Any idea how to add the required platform key to resolve my issue please

[Edwin_D]

It’s in the docs (the requirement has changed):

ESPHome OTA Updates

Because of this breaking change mentioned in the release notes:

Separate `OTABackend` from OTA component

Though the release notes do not make very clear what is needed. But the error does.

[redpis]

Many thanks for the swift replies, to experienced users the instructions are ‘noddy proof’, but after reading, for me the simplest is to flatten the ESP device and restart.

[ShadowFist]

Here, read this in case it helps. Someone has already gone through the trouble of creating simple instructions and pinned the post so others would find it.

Heads up for Esphome 2024.6

In esphome 2024.6 the ota configuration has changed, and it you have ota: in your yaml file it won’t compile without fixing. The old invocation was ota: password: secretstuff You now need to add platform, so it will look like this: ota: - password: secretstuff platform: esphome this will get you there. There is now also a platform: http_request as well, hence the need for a change. This is dealt with in the changelog ESPHome 2024.6.0 - 19th June 2024 — ESPHome , but I just wanted …

Thanks for your contribution @nickrout

[redpis]

Thanks for the info to the guide, it worked which is great, I was adding the platform detail before the password as per the ESP OTA config, but it didn’t like it, anyhoo it works now.

Thanks for you help, much appreciated.

[nickrout]

The order shouldn’t matter.