The ESPHome Home Assistant addon repository is added by default to new Home Assistant installations. Because of this, we have decided that we would deprecate the ESPHome addon inside the Community Addons and everyone should move to the ESPHome repo. It is safe to delete the Community ESPHome addon as your configuration YAML files are stored in the Home Assistant configuration folder.
After my disastrous migration to Z-Wave JS trying to follow the instructions I just want to double-check how to avoid potential problems migrating to ESPHome add-on from the ESPHome Integration. I am currently using ESPHome 2022.3.1 on HAOS 7.6 with HA 2022.4.6.
Anyone done this and what steps do I need to perform?
…and then the question is - how do I delete the old one under Configuration → Devices and Services → Integrations? Should I delete all devices one-by-one? What happens to my automations that are using entities from these devices?
Sorry for being a n00b
Like @msa, it took me the better part of two days to recover from the Z-Wave migration. I only have 5 Z-wave devices, but I have 30 ESPHome devices. so picture me as concerned.
It has nothing to do with core updates. It has to do with the Community Add-on repository depreciating the ESPHome add-on.
Which ESPHome repository are you using?
If you are already using the official ESPHome add-on repository, instead of the Community Add-ons repository you don’t have to do anything.
If you are using the Community Add-ons repository for the ESPHome add-on you need to stop and delete the ESPHome addon, then add the official ESPHome repository and add and start the ESPHome addon again.
This should have no effect on your ESPHome integrations. Worst case, if something goes wrong, you just wont be able to use the ESPHome add-on to manage your devices (OTA updates, add new devices etc…) until you fix it. During this down time the ESPHome integrations will continue to function normally as they are independent of the add-on and communicate directly with the ESP devices.
Look at the Add-on store (button bottom right). Find the ESPHome Add-on you have installed. It will be highlighted with a bar across the top (red in my theme):
The title above that group of add-ons is the repository you installed it from. In my case, the official ESPHome add-on repository.
