M5stack update confusion

ESPHome
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I’m quite new to using ESPHome having only got a bluetooth proxy setup recently.

After updating my HA Green to Core 2025.5.3, I got a notification that my m5stack atom lite should be updated to ESPHome 2025.5.0.

I headed over to the ESPHome ready-made projects which I used to originally setup to Atom Lite as a bluetooth proxy. Only to discover it’s no longer a listed device.

Is the m5stack no longer supported as a bluetooth proxy, is there some other way I should be updating the device?

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M5stack is listed under voice assistant

For proxy you just need to add it the config

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but not the bluetooth proxy, which it originally was.

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I think you are confusing the Lite with the Echo… OP is asking about the Lite, which doesn’t have a microphone or speaker.

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Maybe I am misunderstanding things (still wet behind the ears with esphome) is there a way to flash the atom lite with the base ESPhome image outside of the linked wab page so that I can build upon it to manually add bluetooth (or other sensors if desired)

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There is an add-on, ESPHome Device Builder, for managing, editing, and updating your ESPHome devices from HA.

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yes. I was thinking atom echo

You can just use the device builder addon or docker container for atom lite or any other esp device

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This seems to be what I was looking for.

Thankin you @Didgeridrew and @tmjpugh

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If you need it, the “official” config for an Atom Lite Bluetooth Proxy can be found in the depths of the ESPHome Github repo:

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I confirm the confusion for the user! I have a new M5stack I wanted to quickly configure using the ready-made projects, and found that the M5Stack lite was removed from the BT proxy list.

Is there any reason why it was removed?

Thanks

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Does it not qualify as “generic esp32” device?
Why can’t you use that “ready made project”

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Yes, but the layman could possibly be confused and there is an existing perfect configuration for that device. Why use a generic template when there is one specifically made for it?

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Google search leads to old repository that points here

Not sure how the whole ready made project site things works . May need to ask on GitHub to get it put back there

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Thank you everyone, it is working now and integrated into ESPHome builder.

For anyone else I did.

  • Plug m5 stack into USB port (actually a hub) of HA Green (no TLS access set up on my green so could not do it remote)
  • Rebooted HA Green as it would not see the Atom Lite before that (is there a better way?)
  • Went to ESPHome builder section
  • Manually added a new device, giving it a name, selecting esp32 and then the usb port the atom was on
  • Flashed the atom with the the basic config.
  • using the config Didgeridrew and tmjpugh linked to, I cherry picked the bits I wanted (but the whole config would work as is).
  • installed the new config to atom lite.

Once build and it was on the wifi network I:

  • went to HA’s settings → devices
  • added the usb proxy integration which had been detected.

To test it was working (again suggestions welcome for a better way)

  • unplugged the actual usb adapter plugged into the HA green
  • waited a new minutes
  • verified HA was still receiving data from the Bluetooth devices.
  • Plugged back in the USB adapter.