First use: "couldn't find package.json" right after installation

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I freshly installed the ESPHome addon through the home assistant addon store ui.
Right after the successful installation, I tried to add my D1 Mini through the browser UI. Unfortunately, the initialization of my device failed (while trying to compile the initial setup) with the following error:

MissingPackageManifestError: Could not find one of 'package.json' manifest files in the package

I didn’t touch anything codewise. Therefore, my yaml is still the standard one.
I already tried to re-install the addon.

Any idea how to solve this?

(My Home Assistant Operating System runs on a Raspberry Pi 3+, if that matters)

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Hopefully a temporary glitch with platformio. Clean the directory and try again.

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I’m experiencing the same issue. Fresh install on an ESP32-C3 Super Mini. Arduino is working fine but when I change the framework to esp-idf I get the error.

I tried specifying the previous esp-idf version (5.3.0) instead of the current 5.3.1 and the issue remains.

How would one clean the dircctory? Seems like something that’s done via SSH commands.

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Oh, the build files. Ok, I did that and it didn’t help. Thanks for the reply though. I always appreciate learning from your posts.

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