Unable to flash old numbering esphome 1.13.6

ESPHome
1

docker run --net=host --rm -v “${PWD}”:/config -it esphome/esphome:2021.9.1 run ESP5.yaml

thats works fine

but

docker run --net=host --rm -v “${PWD}”:/config -it esphome/esphome:1.13.6 run ESP5.yaml

fails with

usage: esphome [-h] [-v] [-q]
configuration
{config,compile,upload,logs,run,clean-mqtt,wizard,mqtt-fingerprint,version,clean,dashboard,vscode}
…
esphome: error: argument command: invalid choice: ‘ESP5.yaml’ (choose from ‘config’, ‘compile’, ‘upload’, ‘logs’, ‘run’, ‘clean-mqtt’, ‘wizard’, ‘mqtt-fingerprint’, ‘version’, ‘clean’, ‘dashboard’, ‘vscode’)

2

1.20.4 works, even tho it had to pull from docker

docker run --net=host --rm -v “${PWD}”:/config -it “esphome/esphome:1.20.4” run ESP5.yaml

3

Any particular reason you want to create insecure devices? For example this vulnerability was only fixed in 1.15 :boom:

Do you search for a (particular?) regression or why not using the latest and greatest version available? :thinking:

4

The bug with transitions
https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/2397
and light brightness
https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/2526

I do have a separate VLAN and SSID/Password for these devices, with Pfsense managing firewall rules, but understand this can only help so much.

5

Found it,
The older versions you had to put run at the end of the command.
https://github.com/esphome/esphome-docs/blob/9955d40bf2c510a9f976338774875dd8bda0f2e6/guides/getting_started_command_line.rst

docker run --net=host --rm -v “${PWD}”:/config -it esphome/esphome:1.13.6 ESP5.yaml run

now just need to find that ip address that needs to be added to the host file to stop it thinking it’s offline.