ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy on M5Stack Atom Lite

ESPHome
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I have been running Home Assistant (in a Docker container on a Synology NAS) for some time, but am new to programming devices.

I have just purchased an Atom Lite with the intention of using it as a Bluetooth proxy with Home Assistant. I have connected it to a windows 11 computer via USB and installed the Ready-Made project for blue-tooth proxy, input the Wi-Fi credentials and it say it is connected. The light has gone out on the Atom Lite and the device is not visible on the network (having logged into my router and checked the connected and offline devices) and Home Assistant is not discovering the device - though it is still showing as a device on the computer it is connected to.

What am I doing wrong?

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Try disconnecting it from the computer and powering via a standard USB cable & plug.

Have you added the ESPHome integration?

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I have connected it to a standard cable and plug and it is still not visible on the network and as the light is not on I cannot tell if it is working.

I have also tried adding the ESPHome integration, but I need the device IP address and I dont know that as I cant see it in the list of network devices.

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with the cable connected, go here https://web.esphome.io/ and connect to the console to see the errors.

This is my working yaml on one of my Atom Lites if you want to try that:

substitutions:
  name: atom-mini-xxx
packages:
  esphome.bluetooth-proxy: github://esphome/bluetooth-proxies/esp32-generic/esp32-generic.yaml@main
esphome:
  name: ${name}
  name_add_mac_suffix: false


wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password

ota:
  - platform: esphome
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Downloading the logs has given me the IP and I have now managed to add ESPHome integration and have visibility of Bluetooth devices.

Thanks for the assistance