Weird authentication issues

ESPHome
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I’m having some strange things happen with authentication with esphome.

When I flash a previously used ESP with a new esphome device, it is causing another device to require re-authentication. I’m no sure how this is happening as the esp32 is bein completely reflashed.

When I plug the unused ESP in and power it up, it immediately requires another device on esphome to be re-authenticated.

If I try pull the logs of this newly created ESP device, it fails with an authentication error.

If I unplug the new esp32 device that I am flashing, and click re-authenticate, it re authenticates immediately without asking for the password and remains authenticated until I plug this esp32 back in?

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The device just keeps failing authentication, even after I manually input the authentication key.

Any idea whats going on here, have tried rebooting HA multiple time to clear anything like cache etc.

Thanks

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Did you delete the previously used device from the home assistant esphome integration?

You need to do this before re-flashing.

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Thanks Tom, sorted now.

I must have missed some devices that were left stale, I usually delete what is not used from the ESPhome integration.

Thank you!

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