Making USB available to ESPhome for setup (Hass.io on Linux)

ESPHome
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Hi all,
I am trying to setup a new ESPHome device and it does not show up on the list of available devices. Just OTA and my Z-wave stick.

Running Hass.io on Ubuntu via Docker – I guess I need to pass the USB through to the container, but I’m not sure how to do that (and will all my “new” nodes show up as this USB the first connection or will I have to tweak the commands every time).

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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From the Docker container mount the ESP device into your container using --device=/dev/ttyUSB0 .

Or you can compile and download the bin file using the ESPhome addon dashboard then use the flashing tool to upload the bin file to your device:

I’ve used the second way for a couple of ESP32 boards that refused to be recognised. It works well and once flashed the boards show up in the ESPhome dashboard.

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Thanks, I forgot about the separate flashing tool. I have an office desktop, but the HA computer is a NUC in the basement, so this is an easier way to flash the initial build!

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I use Hasio on Debian.
All I need to do is make sure that I connect the esp module and then restart the esphome addon. Once that is done i see it in the top right corner drop down.

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For the initial flash, I compile and download the binary from the ESPHome web interface, then flash it with esphomeflasher on my Mac. After that, I just use OTA updates

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Great. that works for me and it was very easy :slight_smile:
Thank You!!