Flashing SonOFF Basic R1 with ESPHome: No WIFI Connection Despite Successful Flash

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Well, I have two Basic R1’s that I put together last year that are working and connect to my WIFI network no problem (Ubiquiti AP’s). They were flashed with Tasmota and cannot be managed through ESPHome.

Since I moved to ESPHome, I thought I’d get the other switches up and running. I can flash them, but then the LED just blinks. No connection to the AP.

I have no idea what to do at this point. There’s a post floating around that talks about this issue, but it’s cryptic and the instructions involved are confusing and may or may not apply.

Anyone know what’s up with these?

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What does the esphome logs say?

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+1 check logs to know what happens exactly or it’s impossible to debug !

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Which log? The ESPHome log during upload or HA logger log or … ???

Seems there won’t be a log of anything if the device isn’t connecting to the access point.

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Is your SSID hidden? Then you have to add hidden: true in the networks: part. I have 4 Sonoff R1 working fine with esphome 1.13.6

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I have two of them working fine, but they were flashed with tasmota through Arduino IDE rather than through ESPHome. I was hoping to move to ESPHome for these.

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Sometimes it helps to erase the flash first. On Linux the command is:

esptool.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200 erase_flash (with GPIO0 -> GND)

on rare occasions you need to write the blank_1M image (part of the Espressif SDK). I use for Sonoff’s

esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 write_flash -ff 40m -fm dio -fs 8m 0x00000 blank_1MB.bin 0x100000 blank_1MB.bin

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Would you recommend compiling with ESPHome then downloading the BIN and flashing with a different tool, or is it the same to flash directly through ESPHome add-on in HASS.io?

I didn’t even think to erase the chip to begin with to start clean. I’ll give that a shot first.

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I use esphome directly.

You can observe the logs if it is still connected via serial. Make sure the serial device is still selected in the top right of the gui.

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@arretx I don’t think downloading the .BIN and flashing with another tool will make any difference. Try erasing it first.

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Most likely https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/455

You can try random stuff like changing log level or renaming node.