That goes on indefinitely (“Preparing Installation”) and eventually fails (“Failed to initialise”).
If I insted click “Add to Home Assistant”, browser takes me to “Add ESPHome”, but that only leads to “Can’t connect to ESP. Please make sure your YAML file contains an ‘api:’ line.”
What YAML? Where? I DO have other ESPHome devices (Sonoff plugs, the Adorno Tag Reader and more) installed and working without issues, just not this.
If I skip the “Add to Home Assistant” step from the ESPHome Ready-made Projects website, in my ESPHome Dashboard in HA I see the ESP32 with a green “Adopt” button that just removes BT Proxy again (and never reconnects to Wifi)… It’s an endless loop. I don’t have any subnets, nothing like that.
The device does NOT appear as Discovered in the Integrations and Devices settings in HA.
esphome:
name: esp32-bluetooth-proxy
friendly_name: Bluetooth Proxy
min_version: 2024.6.0
name_add_mac_suffix: true
esp32:
board: esp32dev
framework:
type: esp-idf
wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password
api:
logger:
ota:
- platform: esphome
id: ota_esphome
esp32_ble_tracker:
scan_parameters:
# We currently use the defaults to ensure Bluetooth
# can co-exist with WiFi In the future we may be able to
# enable the built-in coexistence logic in ESP-IDF
active: true
bluetooth_proxy:
active: true
button:
- platform: safe_mode
id: button_safe_mode
name: Safe Mode Boot
- platform: factory_reset
id: factory_reset_btn
name: Factory reset
This installs, shows a succesfull log including working Wifi connection (with a good looking 192.168.0.225 IP), I close that window… and then I can’t ever conenct to it again. When I press “Logs” on the config, it tries to search for an obviously unconfigured IP:
WARNING Can't connect to ESPHome API for esp32-bluetooth-proxy.local: Error resolving IP address: [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname (APIConnectionError)
Doesn’t appear as Discovered in HA, only ESPHome shows that dreaded “Adopt” green button again (Adopt leads to “failed to import device”). It’s NOT being Ignored. I can’t make heads nor tails of this.
EDIT: I tried hardcoding the SSID and wifi password in plain text, no dice, same error
This HAS to be a ESPHome or ESPHome addon bug (wouldn’t be the first). The firmware always installs and shows successful Wifi connection, but when I try to access the logs after that, it never connects and tries to connect to a “.local” address.
