After reading and admiring all the things that can be done with Home Assistant I had to give it a try. Got a new Rasberry Pi 4, Installed the latest Home Assistant, it’s attached to the network and now. For my first project I’m wanting to set up my first connection which is a nodemcu and a temperature/humidity sensor. I have watched videos, read until I’m word weary and I can’t seem to understand how to get the nodemcu attached t o the network so when I try to attach it to Home Assistant It is seen. In Home Assistant I go to Configuration, Integration, then click on the yellow plus button and select ESPHome. It asks for the host and the port. Isn’t the host the name of the nodemcu? Do I need to flash the nodemcu with a node name in order for it to be seen? If so… any direction would be greatly appreciated.
i presume you’ve programmed the nodemcu with esphome.
in the HA configuration HOST window you need to put the nodemcu ip address.
I think that is where I am at a loss. I’ve read the esphome documentation and I have the esphome-flasher that I have used successfully for led lights which was a standard bin file. How do I make the bin file with my specific information in it to connect to my network? I have the arduino loader and have been playing with it but not there yet
well,
you need to install the esphome addon, then you configure your device in the yaml file, then you flash your device produced by esphome.
there’s some youtube examples.
Ok, I finally found the repository add page. It is currently installing. Thank you for the reply!