Getting Started with our ESPHome Products
Getting Started with our ESPHome Products
Introduction
This guide will cover getting any of out ESPHome products setup in Home Assistant. If you haven't got any ESPHome products then why not take a look in our store.
What is ESPHome
ESPHome is a tool which aims to make managing your ESP boards as simple as possible. It reads in a YAML configuration file and creates custom firmware which it installs on your ESP device. All our ESPHome based devices come pre-flashed and ready to go. Devices or sensors added in ESPHome’s configuration will automatically show up in Home Assistant’s UI.
Getting Setup
Auto discovery
In most cases you device will be automatically discovered by Home Assistant.
Step 1
You should have a notification inside Home Assistant, if you do then click Check it Out.
If you don't have a notification then you'll need to navigate to Settings > Devices and Services and you'll see a section at the top named Discovered
Step 2
Click the configure button.
Step 3
Follow the wizard, you shouldn't need to change any settings.
Step 4
Done!
Manual Setup
If your devices is not automatically discovered by Home Assistant then you'll need to configure it manually by following the steps below.
Step 1
To start off with you'll want to add the following integration to your Home Assistant instance:
Step 2
Add your device to the ESPHome integration manually by navigating to Settings > Devices and Services > Integrations and selecting ESPHome then clicking on the Add Device button
Step 3
Enter the device IP Address (which you can normally find by using the connected devices page of your router)
Step 4
Done!
