ESP12S not showing in ESP Home plugin

ESPHome
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ESP Noob question here. I’m just starting out with this ESP stuff. I created a small ESP Home configuration file and uploaded it to an ESP12S based development board over USB using the ESP home command line interface on my windows PC. It all seems to work out fine. The entities show up in Home Assistant and even an OTA works from the windows CLI. However I do not see the device in the ESP home plugin in Home Assistant.

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Why would that be? Because it was created using the windows CLI? I cannot really create it from within Home Assistant since the USB ports on the RPI are not easily accessible, but I would like to maintain and upgrade it via OTA from within Home Assitant.

Configuration file:

esphome:
  name: esp_wtw
  platform: ESP8266
  board: nodemcuv2

wifi:
  ssid: *****
  password: ********

# Enable logging
logger:
    #level: DEBUG

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: GPIO13
      mode: INPUT_PULLUP
      inverted: True
    name: "black"

switch:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: GPIO12
    name: "One"
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Put the yaml file into the HA machine. It goes in /config/esphome

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That looks like a step back.
I assumed that they would be added to the user interface so that they could be conveniently managed.

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Thanks @nickrout, that made it work.

5

You assumed wrong.

Think about it, the yaml cannot be extracted from the flashed device, so the other instance of esphome could not possibly add it.

6

I understand. I still use USB and HA for flashing. It just seemed impractical to me.

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Once you have flashed the first time OTA is available.