ESP Home New User

I am attempting to learn and use ESP home (as a Bluetooth proxy to begin with). I have successfully installed ESPHome & started by plugging the board into my laptop via USB C and adding the new device. Now that the board it plugged into a wall outlet with a USB port I get the following, and the automation I had set up isn’t working. Does this mean that the ESP board isn’t connected to my HA instance even though the ESPHome Compiler shows that it’s online?


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It says esphome cannot connect. Has nothing to do with HA

Go to “devices an services” page in HA and use esphome integration to add the device

I believe I’ve done that correctly too.

These are the newest logs …I have a BT Oral B Toothbrush in the master Bed Room/Bath and it’s not picking up in ESP Home under devices.

Check HA logs

The proxy seems OK. You just need to figure out how to get devices connected through proxy to HA. That I cant help with but likely you need to initiate pairing on the device you want connected as a first step(just a guess).

I have tried the Oral B integration but it indicates that no devices are found.

Did you turn on pairing on the oral b?

Put oral B in pairing mode
Search for Device in HA

Like I said, I never pair with proxy but pairing should be affectively similar

If device isn’t in pairing mode it won’t be connected to anything

Edit:

Did you set proxy to “true”

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true

Also Oral B should be auto discovered and show in HA notifications if you have discovery turn on for HA. Verify it’s not in notifications and you just missed it.

You’ll still need to start pairing on oral B I imagine

Yes and it didn’t pick up. I had taken the toothbrush to where HA is installed on the Pi4 and it worked there. Yes the bluetooth_proxy: part is in the code too.

I tried a different ESP board and it worked (so far). Is there a way to wipe the original ESP board completely?

Reflashing wipes it upon flashing