Unable to compile configuration

ESPHome
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I’m trying to flash a device (first time ESPHome user), using Chrome. I have set up SSL certs on my HA.

I’ve tried two devices, and different USB cables, and have also rebooted. But each time, it picks it up:

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But then says it has failed to compile. I know there are other ways of doing it, but really hoping to get this method working as I want to do lots of these!

Logs:

[18:48:59] INFO: Waiting for dashboard to come up...
[18:49:00] INFO: Starting ESPHome dashboard...
2023-01-05 18:49:02,387 INFO Starting dashboard web server on unix socket /var/run/esphome.sock and configuration dir /config/esphome...
[18:49:02] INFO: Starting NGINX...
2023-01-05 18:53:52,914 INFO 304 GET / (0.0.0.0) 35.69ms
2023-01-05 18:53:52,981 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.03ms
2023-01-05 18:53:54,155 WARNING 404 GET /secret_keys (0.0.0.0) 3.07ms
2023-01-05 18:53:54,309 INFO 304 GET /boards (0.0.0.0) 143.66ms
2023-01-05 18:53:57,985 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.97ms
2023-01-05 18:54:03,006 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.01ms
2023-01-05 18:54:07,995 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.02ms
2023-01-05 18:54:10,493 WARNING 404 GET /info?configuration=garage-opener.yaml (0.0.0.0) 1.93ms
2023-01-05 18:54:13,014 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.26ms
2023-01-05 18:54:18,001 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.92ms
2023-01-05 18:54:23,011 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.65ms
2023-01-05 18:54:28,018 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.63ms
2023-01-05 18:54:30,184 INFO 200 POST /wizard (0.0.0.0) 18.21ms
2023-01-05 18:54:30,216 INFO 101 GET /compile (0.0.0.0) 2.52ms
2023-01-05 18:54:30,220 INFO Running command 'esphome --dashboard compile /config/esphome/garage-opener.yaml'
2023-01-05 18:54:30,855 INFO Process exited with return code 2
2023-01-05 18:54:31,063 INFO 200 POST /delete?configuration=garage-opener.yaml (0.0.0.0) 5.46ms
2023-01-05 18:54:33,016 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.44ms
2023-01-05 18:54:38,017 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.03ms
2023-01-05 18:54:43,032 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.60ms
2023-01-05 18:58:11,550 INFO 304 GET / (0.0.0.0) 2.50ms
2023-01-05 18:58:11,625 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 3.22ms
2023-01-05 18:58:12,965 WARNING 404 GET /secret_keys (0.0.0.0) 2.07ms
2023-01-05 18:58:12,978 INFO 304 GET /boards (0.0.0.0) 3.00ms
2023-01-05 18:58:16,611 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.33ms
2023-01-05 18:58:21,623 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.19ms
2023-01-05 18:58:26,625 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.41ms
2023-01-05 18:58:27,659 WARNING 404 GET /info?configuration=garage.yaml (0.0.0.0) 1.30ms
2023-01-05 18:58:31,634 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.72ms
2023-01-05 18:58:36,644 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.52ms
2023-01-05 18:58:41,634 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.10ms
2023-01-05 18:58:43,906 INFO 200 POST /wizard (0.0.0.0) 9.83ms
2023-01-05 18:58:43,936 INFO 101 GET /compile (0.0.0.0) 1.66ms
2023-01-05 18:58:43,939 INFO Running command 'esphome --dashboard compile /config/esphome/garage.yaml'
2023-01-05 18:58:44,566 INFO Process exited with return code 2
2023-01-05 18:58:44,789 INFO 200 POST /delete?configuration=garage.yaml (0.0.0.0) 7.55ms
2023-01-05 18:58:46,634 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 2.53ms
2023-01-05 18:58:51,803 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.95ms
2023-01-05 18:58:56,885 INFO 304 GET /devices (0.0.0.0) 1.35ms
2

@snatch did to solve this problem? I am experiencing exactly the same issue.

3

i connected to my docker container shell, created a almost blank yaml file and ran this:
esphome --dashboard compile /config/test.yaml

this compiled and worked. From this point onwards I was able to get the website ui to work.
Probably a coincidence, not sure.
I also had 404 errors in the logs for secrets.yaml so perhaps this was also related to the problem.

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When I access the home assistant shell I don’t have any esphome command. Do I need to enter the esphome addon container? I tried to look into the different ha commands, but couldn’t find it. Can you please explain how you were able to do it?

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I was able to get this working by clicking “skip this step”, saving the configuration, and then using my browser with the ESP device connected.

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I find using a browser to flash anything is just a massive problem for me. Nothing works. I’ve found the only way for me is to install vscode and platformio and run everything from the command line avoiding the browser completely. Browser flashing is supposed to make things easy and in doing so it makes everything 10x more complex and problematic.

I’ll create a YAML file in vscode and then run commands like:

#pip install platformio==6.1.16 if wrong version of platformio is installed so don’t upgrade!

#This command is needed to clean build files (especially needed when switching frameworks)
esphome clean awox-connect.yaml

#This is the command to compile
esphome compile awox-connect.yaml

#This command uploads the binary file
esphome upload awox-connect.yaml --device COM4