FYI: a developer has begun porting ESPHome to nRF52 platform as custom platforms (which in turn will allow support for nRF52840 as a core platform)

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I have not tried nrf on esphome, but docs give example config for that board using itsybitsy.
What bootloader you uploaded?

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I uploaded the nice!nano one using openocd.