How do you use SDL2?

[clydebarrow (Clyde Stubbs)]

@JermQ

but I do see the initial connection

That’s not a connection, that’s just a config report. This is a connection:

[04:06:51][D][api:102]: Accepted 192.168.1.43
[04:06:51][D][api.connection:1375]: Home Assistant 2024.7.2 (192.168.1.43): Connected successfully

[JermQ]

@clydebarrow

That’s not a connection, that’s just a config report. This is a connection:

OK, thanks that helps.
My API configuration is just:

api:

Have I missed some way of specifying the IP Address of the API?

[clydebarrow (Clyde Stubbs)]

@JermQ

Have I missed some way of specifying the IP Address of the API?

You do that in HA - give it the IP address of the system running ESPHome.

[JermQ]

I am still looking for where you’d do that

[nickrout]

When you integrate the device into ha.

[JermQ]

OK thanks, I finally got that.

1. Start the device on the dev machine $ esphome run testing.yaml
2. Switch to my Home Assistant App …
3. Open Settings > Devices & Services > Integrations > ESPHome
4. Tap Add Device and select the device
5. Enter the IP Address of the dev machine in step 1

I was expecting to tell the device the address of the HA server, not the other way around, hence my initial confusion.
Thanks for your persistence.

[nickrout]

Yes, same as any other esphome device.

The esphome device is the server in terms of the esphome API.