I have followed the online guidance (Editing ESPHome Code | Everything Presence Lite) for the Everything Presence Lite and it is working well.
Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to add it to ESPHome so I can’t edit the code. It shows under Devices in Settings but does not show on the ESPHome dashboard.
What am I doing wrong, please, and how do I add it so I can edit the yaml?
Add it manually.
Devices/Services - Esphome - Add Device - enter device IP address.
He’s already done this. What he’s wanting to do is adopt the device so he can modify the firmware.
If you have the ESPHome addon, you should see a message about there being new devices detected. Click the “show” link and you should be able to adopt the device and edit the YAML.
Thanks, all - I have adopted the device and it shows up in the list of devices under Settings | Devices & Services | ESPHome where all the Controls and Sensors are listed.
It does not show in the ESPHome Builder dashboard so I cannot edit the yaml.
Is there a black bar at the top that says “Discovered 1 device” that has the word Show on it?
Thanks, @daywalker03
Nope, nothing like that. I’ve tried both the desktop chrome-based approach and the Android app and neither show a new device.
I ran a test with a new EPL.
power it up
HASS detects it
Add it then get confirmation then
Allocate an area
It appears in the devices tab:
But not in the EspHome dashboard.
Interestingly, HASS sees it is because it prompted me to update it’s firmware - but then failed when I tried!
It’s not a big problem, luckily I have largely built my own ESPHome nodes so am comfortable with yaml and that process and can manually copy the yaml from the Github and merge it myself. It’s just weird and I’d like to understand if I’m doing something wrong, or there is another problem!
That’s weird that it isn’t importing the config file but, you can just download the appropriate config here GitHub - EverythingSmartHome/everything-presence-lite: Everything Presence Lite
Then you may need to edit in specific details for you, your network, wifi, etc and then reflash the modified config file onto the esp board.
I looked at this thing briefly, is this just an esp32 w/ld24xx mmwave sensor in an all-in-one type of setup or what? Their website wasn’t all that helpful.
Thanks, that’s what I’ve done!
Yes, that’s what it is. It’s a pretty neat package at a reasonable price point.
