That is the correct method.
The Esphome application (which you can use standalone, or by an addon) has nothing to do with integration to home assistant.
I had this problem, the solution in my case was to remove underscores from the hostname.
I have created a PR to hopefully prevent this from affecting anyone else.
Hi @Aussi ,
thank you very much for this solution. been searching for days and this is the solution for me (had the same problem!)
unfortunately, after a restart of HA, all sensors are no longer available. Anyone have a solution for this?
Similar symptoms and exact same workaround happening on one of my esphome devices as well.
Note that it is just the one, and I have many others doing similar esphome devices that do not have this issue. I also observed it doesnāt correlate to just restarting the serverā¦ in my case sometimes HA loses connection randomly, for no apparent reason. The device in question, yes does have somewhat weaker wifi, but it has for years and there are other esphome devices in the same room that are still working with even weaker signals. Also hard for me to pin wifi drop on this, since doing the tango with the disable/enable gets it working every timeā¦ and not to mention the esphome logs are working as expected while it is ālost to HAā (that would be impossible without good wifi).
So to me this seems to be a bug with esphome or HA. I want to help if possible to fix this issue, as the device in question is a very important one for my install. The sooner I can get it reliable again, the less nagging Iāll have to hear from the natives. Iām not a dev, but tech savvy enough to capture logs, wireshark, etc.
Just wanted to report what I found out sinceā¦ it seems the issue is related to enabling the esphome encryption feature on the particular device. After commenting out the lines enabling encryption, the problem has gone away altogether.
Note that I still have the rest of my numerous esphome devices using encryption without issues. So I am guessing there is some incompatibility with the features on that particular device when used with encryption. Along those lines, Iām sharing the yaml config for the device that is having issues with encryption:
substitutions:
name: "garage"
friendly_name: "Garage"
# Custom esp12f device
esphome:
name: ${name}
platform: ESP8266
board: d1_mini
on_boot:
then:
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- switch.turn_off: relay
wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password
# Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
ap:
ssid: "${friendly_name} Fallback Hotspot"
password: "also some secret"
captive_portal:
# Enable logging to get dallas address
logger:
# Enable HA API
api:
password: !secret garage_password
encryption:
key: !secret encryption_key
# Enable ota
ota:
password: !secret ota_password
# description GPIO D1 mini
#-------------------------------------------------
# relay 15 D8 // relay input pin (must stay low on power up)
# motion 13 D7 // motion output pin
# s-Tx 12 D6 // software serial
# s-Rx 14 D5 // software serial
# built in LED 2 D4 // status
# nc 0 D3 // na
# scl 4 D2 // i2c clock pin
# sda 5 D1 // i2c data pin
# beeper 16 D0 // Beeper input pin
i2c:
sda: GPIO5
scl: GPIO4
frequency: 100kHz
uart:
tx_pin: GPIO12
rx_pin: GPIO14
baud_rate: 9600
dfplayer:
binary_sensor:
- platform: status
name: "${friendly_name} Status"
- platform: gpio
pin:
number: GPIO13
mode: INPUT
name: "${friendly_name} Motion"
device_class: motion
text_sensor:
- platform: homeassistant
name: "ESPhome Voice"
internal: true
entity_id: input_text.esphome_voice
on_value:
then:
- dfplayer.set_volume: 25
- delay: 150ms
- dfplayer.play_folder:
folder: 1
file: !lambda return atoi(x.c_str());
sensor:
- platform: wifi_signal
name: "${friendly_name} WiFi Signal"
update_interval: 60s
- platform: bh1750
name: "${friendly_name} Luminance"
address: 0x23
update_interval: 10s
- platform: bme280
temperature:
name: "${friendly_name} Temperature"
oversampling: 16x
pressure:
name: "${friendly_name} Pressure"
filters:
- lambda: return (x + 3.0);
humidity:
name: "${friendly_name} Humidity"
address: 0x76
update_interval: 60s
status_led:
pin:
number: GPIO2
switch:
- platform: gpio
name: "${friendly_name} Opener Relay"
pin: GPIO15
id: relay
icon: mdi:garage
on_turn_on:
- delay: 500ms
- switch.turn_off: relay
- platform: gpio
name: "${friendly_name} Beeper"
pin: GPIO16
id: beeper
internal: true
icon: mdi:volume-low
- platform: template
name: "${friendly_name} Beeps 2"
turn_on_action:
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- platform: template
name: "${friendly_name} Beeps 3"
turn_on_action:
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- platform: template
name: "${friendly_name} Beeps 5"
turn_on_action:
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_on: beeper
- delay: 50ms
- switch.turn_off: beeper
So, simply commenting out:
encryption:
key: !secret encryption_key
Gets it working again. Weāll see what comes of thisā¦ hereās the issue report on github for those interested: