Setting Up Manual ESPhome Dashboard

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Compiling causes my ESPhome addon to HA to crash. Instead I am trying to set up ESPhome manually. I following all the instructions on this guide Installing ESPHome Manually successfully. I now am trying to access the dashboard as explained in this guide: Bonus: ESPHome dashboard as I want to avoid use of terminal since I am not familiar with it. However, I am stuck at the part where is says:

To start the ESPHome dashboard, simply start ESPHome with the following command (with config/ pointing to a directory where you want to store your configurations)

I try:

esphome dashboard config/Users\xxxxxx\HomeAssistant\esphome

and I get an error

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'config/Users\\danga\\HomeAssistant\\esphome'

What am I doing wrong?

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You need an actual path to your config directory. Also, you can’t mix the forward and backward slash. You didn’t say what platform, but unless it’s Windows your path will probably be something like:

/Users/xxxxx/HomeAssistant/esphome/config

So the command will be something like:

esphome dashboard /Users/xxxxx/HomeAssistant/esphome/config

Not sure how you’re managing any of this without using the terminal though.

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Thank you for responding!

To clarify, I am doing this on windows and I want to use the dashboard to minimize my use of terminal.

I tried your recommendations and I am getting the same error.

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You have to provide the actual path to that config directory. On Windows it will be something like:

C:\Users\xxxxx\HomeAssistant\esphome\config

If you don’t know how to get the actual path to the directory where your configs are stored, you are probably going to have a hard time doing anything else you need to do to do what you are trying to do.

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