M5Stack Dial: initial set up

ESPHome
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I just got an M5Stack dial, there is a bit of info here about how to get it to do a few things like use as a media centre control or light dimmer or fan control.

but I cant find anything on the intial set up, how to get it into Home Assistant etc

anyome know how to do this?

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Hello Quinton,

Check here:

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sir good enough, thank you ill go through all of it.

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You can start with this:

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Thanks Karosm
i dont see anything there on how to do the initial set up, how to get it into HA how to move code to it.

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That’s the code you need for your M5Stack.
Link to instructions how to setup Esphome were already posted above by @Sir_Goodenough (second link).

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after trying to install, fail, delete, repeat copious amounts of times everyday for the past two weeks, the dial which now shows nothing on the screen was “discovered”. I tried to adopt it and it has come up with the following:

INFO ESPHome 2024.8.1
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/esphome-web-968ebc.yaml...
Failed config

esphome: None
  name: esphome-web-968ebc
  friendly_name: Hudson Dial
  
  Your ESPHome version is too old. Please update to at least 2025.5.0.
  min_version: 2025.5.0
  name_add_mac_suffix: False
  build_path: build/esphome-web-968ebc

much like the method for setting up this dial, i cant find anything on upgrading esphome except for a comment on the web saying that it had to be completely uninstalled and then re-installed. im assuming this will destroy the configs for the other devices i have in here?

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Nothing bad should happen. Anyway, make a backup of your config folder that contains your yamls.
And when you upgrade esphome, you don’t need to upgrade your devices that are working like desired.

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finally got around to upgrading esp home, thank you Karosm. all worked no trouble.

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I was doing so many things wrong and also uploading code that didn’t work. I now can move code to the device. I used the code from here:

I was able to get the code on the dial using esp home/builder with no errors, it now has “offline” on the screen of the dial.

So now is this a problem with wifi connection?
does the code need to be tailored for my set up?
is this an issue with the version of the stamp, mine is S3A?

cheers