Esphome adding a new esp8266 device using local doesn't work but using SSL does

Hi All, I’m an 80 year old new member of your community but I have used your site from time to time in my couple of months trying to learn the ins and outs of HA.
I am running HA as per the detais below:
Home Assistant 2023.7.0
Supervisor 2023.07.1
Operating System 10.3
Frontend 20230705.0 - latest
Server Raspberry Pi3
I am trying to collect the data from a Sofar HYD 5000-ES inverter using a esp8266 and a rs495 TTL board.
I am trying to add a device locally and I cant get past the inititilizing phase all I get is the spinning wheel.
I created another Home Assistant and set it up with SSL and found that I could get the esp8266 installed.
Now I am back trying to set the board up loacally which is the way I would prefer to run HA.
I have read your topic content from May '22 and I have connected the board to the RP USB and I wonder if someone could guide me through how to flash the board this way.

Regards Mike

Welcome!

Are you trying to use ESPHome with the ESP8266? Not sure I follow exactly what you’re trying to do.

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