I bought a few of these and I will be trying to get them into ESPHome as I can. No Promises, but it should be possible to use the Tasmota configuration to use as the pins in the ESPhome configurations. I would prefer not to use Tasmota. These are half the cost of the Kauf with ESPHome.
I was on the path to getting it flashed with ESPHome and did all the homework by hand, and at the end where I was setting the final LED configurations I found this page had been updated:
The yaml was so similar I might as well as direct you to the above.
To be clear you have the io9 grounded right? Looks like maybe it didn’t boot into the bootloader mode.
I was using a linux machine to do my flashing. I was able to flash via my self hosted ESPHome via the browser. I think on Windows that can also appear if you have the wrong driver for the FTDI programmer, but that may be a red herring.
If you can get Tasmota on there, take your Legacy generated bin for ESPHome and flash it via the Tasomota OTA firmware upgrade. Wait a few minutes after succesful upload then powercycle
Great Idea !!! I finally tried it and was able to successfully flash ESPhome from the Tasmota OTA screen. The device shows up on my router and HA is asking to configure it. YAY…
Now I’m stuck with this Error
All I get is this. Anyone have any suggestions?
ESPhome knows it’s on the network… Else it wouldn’t ask to config. it.
I know that you can download the diagnostics and get the ip from that, ESPhome Home assistant Integration, however it appears you haven’t been able to add it for it to appear in the list to generate that.
If you are using DHCP on your local network, a tool like Fing or logging into your router and checking the DHCP clients list may help you find it via IP address.
A static IP may help, however that can get tedious quickly with a bunch of bulbs.
If you can’t access the router and you don’t like the idea of Fing, then a nmap scan for the port 6053 will show you all the devices on your local network that use the API port for ESPHome.
How different is your yaml to the above guide? Is it possible the device isn’t on anymore?
DHCP servers renews IP address leases every X hours. It could be that the IP addresses changed due to a DHCP server setting if it fell within the window.
Oh just to note, I realized that I bought two different types of the Vont Smart bulbs.
There are the SLB04 - RCWV1-X4 which work exactly as expected
and then there is VNT-SLB03 which doesn’t have the cool white ( or if it does, the temperature controls for warm white and cool white) don’t work with this configuration, but otherwise color, on/off and other other ESPhome functions appear to work.