ESPHome Device Builder install fails without explanation

Hi. I’m trying to install ESPHome on a Sonoff RF Bridge R2. Installation seemed to be proceeding well. The bridge is connected to a Raspberry Pi running HA via a USB FTDI TTL serial interface. Connecting to the device is working (after setting it in programming mode). But “download preparation” fails and the log is fairly cryptic.

INFO ESPHome 2025.3.2

INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/sonoff-rf-bridge-r2.yaml…

INFO Generating C++ source…

INFO Compiling app… Processing sonoff-rf-bridge-r2 (board: esp01_1m; framework: arduino; platform: platformio/[email protected])

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HARDWARE: ESP8266 80MHz, 80KB RAM, 1MB Flash

Dependency Graph

|-- ESPAsyncTCP-esphome @ 2.0.0

|-- ESPAsyncWebServer-esphome @ 3.3.0

|-- DNSServer @ 1.1.1

|-- ESP8266WiFi @ 1.0

|-- ESP8266mDNS @ 1.2

|-- noise-c @ 0.1.6

========================= [FAILED] Took 10.58 seconds =========================

I am guessing that the log means that the C++ firmware was compiled and linked but failed to transfer to the bridge.

I’d sure appreciate any thoughts on where to go from here.
Thanks.

Mike

What I’m seeing is that something happened with the dependency check that stopped it from compiling. What that could be, I don’t know.

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