SPS30 errors .. docs not up to date? Or am I missing something?

ESPHome
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So, I just bought myself an SPS30 particle sensor, wired it to an 8266, gave it a minimal configuration (largely a copy and paste from the ESPHome web page) and ta-da! Sensor data.

Then I added the line

idle_interval: 5min

again, right from the web page and got an error.

[idle_interval] is an invalid option for [sensor.sps30]. Did you mean [update_interval], [auto_cleaning_interval]?

Hmm, OK, comment that out, let’s add some buttons. Added the autoclean button (from the web page)

button:
  - platform: template
    name: "SPS30 fan clean"
    on_press:
      then:
        - sps30.start_fan_autoclean: my_sps30

and all was happy. Added the manual start and stop buttons

 button:
   - platform: template
     name: "SPS30 fan clean"
     on_press:
       then:
         - sps30.start_fan_autoclean: my_sps30
   - platform: template
     name: "SPS30 start measuring"
     on_press:
       then:
         - sps30.start_measurement: my_sps30
   - platform: template
     name: "SPS30 stop measuring"
     on_press:
       then:
         - sps30.stop_measurement: my_sps30

and another error.

 button.template: [source <unicode string>:44]
   platform: template
   name: SPS30 start measuring
   on_press:
     then:
       -
         Unable to find action with the name 'sps30.start_measurement'.
         sps30.start_measurement: my_sps30
 button.template: [source <unicode string>:49]
   platform: template
   name: SPS30 stop measuring
   on_press:
     then:
       -
         Unable to find action with the name 'sps30.stop_measurement'.
         sps30.stop_measurement: my_sps30

Am I doing something wrong? Or is the web page incorrect? Or is there some other ESPHome config I need to do that I’m unaware of?

2

Your syntax looks correct.
But what esphome version are you on?

3

Thanks for the note!

I’m running an older version, as I have just discovered.

Strangely, I have a script to do an upgrade once a month, run as a cron job (Windows Scheduled Task).

Just ran the script again now manually, and it found a bunch of thing to upgrade. My YAML now compiles!

Yay!

Except for one new thing. I have historically added the line

ota:
  password: "1234 etc. "

to my YAML files. With this new version, I get an error.

 'ota' requires a 'platform' key but it was not specified.

Not sure what a platform key is, but I should be able to figure it out. Until then, I have commented the lines out, uploaded serially and all is good.

4

Yeah, but not so fresh update..

ota:
  - platform: esphome