Help needed - D1 mini gets ESP01_01m config

ESPHome
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I am trying to add my first D1 Mini (bought from AZDelivery " D1 Mini NodeMcu with ESP8266-12F WLAN Module CH340G Lua compatible with Arduino")
to ESPHome.

Problem is it gets setup with
esp8266:
board: esp01_1m
when i onboard it via USB Cable and ESPHome Web.

It comes online in ESPHome but doesn’t give me the amount of I/O’s i need since it does not give me the full feature set of the D1 mini needed for my Stepper Motor project.

What am i doing wrong?

I tried changing the YAML config of the board: from “esp01_01m” to “d1_mini” but then it goes offline.

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Edit your yaml.

3

Hi,
Thanks for the response.

My YAML looks like this

substitutions:
  name: "espstepper"
  friendly_name: espstepper

esphome:
  name: ${name}
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
  min_version: 2024.6.0
  name_add_mac_suffix: false
  project:
    name: esphome.web
    version: dev

esp8266:
  board: esp01_1m

What do i change to interact with it in the correct way?

I already tried changing the board: to d1_mini as that is the board i bought. But this only breaks it and never come online again.

Thank you in advance.

4

As the docs say, you choose board here. PlatformIO Registry

But you show no logs. No logs = no issue. Changing to d1_mini will not affect wifi.

5

d1_mini or nodemcuv2 should work.
Do you have something connected to strapping pins?

6

Fixed. Since i did it wrong i will enter what i did here if it helps anyone else.

Error: When i added the d1 mini by onboarding a new unit via USB Cable and ESPHome Web it made it by default a ESP01_01m config. For some reason changing that to d1_mini and reflashing messed up my config and my board never came back online.

Fix: Adding the config from ESP Home from scratch by creating a bin file for download, selecting the board there and then flashing my d1 mini board worked.

Guess maybe i should have read the manual some more but now it works.

Thanks for your responses.