Hi, I am new to HA and ESPHome so I hope this isn’t user error. I have a few NodeMCUs working with ESPHome, these are just sensors that send data back to HA. They work fine. I am now trying to add a new device that will take a value as input (0-255) and I want to take that value and pass it from a NodeMCU running ESPHome firmware via SPI to control a device.
I am following the examples for Custom Output (sorry, I can’t include link before I’m a new user).
and when I compile, I get:
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/dpot.yaml…
Failed config
light.custom: [source /config/esphome/dpot.yaml:76]
platform: custom
[type] is an invalid option for [light.custom]. Please check the indentation.
type: float [source /config/esphome/dpot.yaml:77]
lambda: |-
auto my_custom_float_output = new MyCustomFloatOutput();
App.register_component(my_custom_float_output);
return {my_custom_float_output};
lights:
- name: dpotstuff
Here is my config:
output:
- platform: custom
type: float
lambda: |-
auto my_custom_float_output = new MyCustomFloatOutput();
App.register_component(my_custom_float_output);
return {my_custom_float_output};
It seems this was an issue someone had before: https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/50
But I am not sure how to fix this. I am running this in Hass.io on a Raspberry Pi, so I am not exactly sure how to get to esphomeyaml/components/output/custom.py to see if it’s fixed?
I did try to run the dev branch to see if it’s fixed from 1.15.3, but same error.
I don’t need float, since the value I am passing are whole numbers between 0-255, but I am not enough of a programmer to figure out from the example how to make it work. Please help. 