Flashed multiple Sonoff switches with ESPhome...problem integrating with HA

ESPHome
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Greetings,

I am trying to use 6-8 Sonoff Basic R2 switches throughout my house to control lights and appliances. I flashed ALL with SAME firmware using esphome. They all connect to WiFi and are assigned ip addresses.

I can integrate and control the first switch without any problem. When adding the second switch, HA complains:
“Platform esphome does not generate unique IDs. ID sonoff_basic_switchbinary_sensorsonoff_basic_button already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.lab_lights_button”, etc.

To clarify: lab_lights was the ID I used when renaming the first device and its associated entities.

Questions:

  1. Is there a way to use the devices as currently flashed (same firmware and ids)?
  2. If different IDs are required, how do I generate separate firmware for each device while reusing the common libraries and tools?
  3. Is it possible to flash them OTA (including different IDs – see 2.) using esphome at this point?

Initially, I tried to generate separate firmware using substitutions and !include. I stopped doing it at the second device because the esphome tool kept downloading the same libraries. I could not figure out how to reuse the platformio.ini so I thought I could get away with just flashing the same fw.

As you can probably tell, I’m a newbie HA and ESPhome user. Any suggestions/ideas are appreciated.

Thank you!

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They each have to have a different name.

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@nickrout : thanks for clarifying! Any ideas on questions 2. and 3.?

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I think 2 will be addressed by 1. I think you will need to create a node in esphome for each of your switches e.g. node 1 = switch1, node 2 = switch2, etc. It looks to me like your current approach will result in all of your devices attempting to be the same single node/entity e.g. node 1 = switch 1, node 1 = switch 2.

I’m no expert but I think thats whats happening :slight_smile:

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I don’t see any ‘‘nodes’’ in Configuration. Can you point me to instructions on how to do that? Thanks!

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You should be seeing something like this in HA/ESPhome

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Clicking the plus icon on that page will start the wizard to add a new “node”. So add a node for each switch you have - that help?

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I see! Thanks! I’ll give it a try.

I just generated a couple of different firmwares on a dev machine. I’m not a big fan of mixing production with dev so I do not use ESPHome in HA. If I can’t flash them OTA I’ll try using your method.

Thanks again!

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What firmware did you flash them with? have you tried tasmota all mine are flashed with it and all came into HA no problem

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You can use substitutions and includes to make a generic file and then make a series of diffferent firmwares for a number of devices.