Stuck getting started

ESPHome
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Just jumping into ESP home from making my own esp32 things and the guides seem easy enough but I can’t get a simple wifi sensor thing running. Maybe there is a write up I’m missing?

I have 2 ESP devices now showing up in ESP Home after adding to HA.
First device is a BT proxy that I installed to an ESP dev board from within HA, it’s working fine.

Next, I wanted a wifi sensor so I could decide which device and antenna will work for my next project. This 2nd device has been a bit more trouble… it’s an ESP32 S2 and the installers were failing (no wifi or compiler error about wifi) but I found a way (web searching) to create and download the basic new device package from HA-ESPHome and install it using Adafruits tool. This second device now shows as online in HA-ESPHome. So I edited the yaml for it and added a sensor at the end so it look like:

sensor:
  - platform: wifi_signal
    name: "WiFi Signal Sensor Int S2"
    update_interval: 30s

Install over wifi and it looks fine in that it produces no errors and shows online in HA-ESPhome.

But I can’t find any trace of my new sensor in HA anywhere.

I’m finding some steps I may need to “DO STUFF” with the API key before the sensor will show but should not need to re-boot HA. Where can I see an example that shows all the steps or what am I missing?

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Hmmmm this must be a clue, 2 ESP Home device but only one is ‘integrated’.

This view in ESPHome tab:

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Only one ESP showing up in the integration under settings:

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Turns out it was as simple as adding the device a second time in the end under the integration.

Don’t know why I didn’t have to do this for the proxy device or if it was because of the loader problems perhaps?

3

Getting started guide got you covered

https://esphome.io/guides/getting_started_hassio#connecting-your-device-to-home-assistant

4

You need to share your yaml if we want to have any chance of figuring this out. For instance, is there an api: entry in there, or are you using mqtt to integrate with HA? Especially since you got the first install way in a nonstandard way.