Question about BT proxies, ESPHome-do you need it?

I have been using HA for a few years now but I am a novice about it all on my best day. That said, I have 3 devices -2 ESP boards that have been flashed to be BT Proxies and a ESP32 S3 Box 3. I am running HA on a YELLOW, HAOS. I have been having issues w/ my setup so instead of looking thru logs, actually troubleshooting the issues I went the lazy route and just did a reset and am redoing it all (I am on vaca for a month so I have time) When it all came back up HA has discovered all 3 of my BT devices. Here is my question- will they work without installing ESPHome? I thought that was a requirement but they are all showing up. I don’t really want to click the ADD button until I fully understand the correct process. Thanks in advance for any help/guidance.

If you’re not building your own projects/YAML and compiling them (so instead using the pre-made ESPHome projects), then no need for the add-on.

Thanks! Kind of assumed this but needed verification.

This is why the add-on was recently renamed to ESPHome Device Compiler.

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