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ESPHome Add-on

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.

  1. Search for the “ESPHome” add-on in the Supervisor add-on store.
  2. Press install to download the add-on and unpack it on your machine. This can take some time.
  3. Optional: If you're using SSL/TLS certificates and want to encrypt your communication to this add-on, please enter true into the ssl field and set the fullchain and certfile options accordingly.
  4. Start the add-on, check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
  5. Click "OPEN WEB UI" to open the ESPHome dashboard. You will be asked for your Home Assistant credentials - ESPHome uses Home Assistant's authentication system to log you in.

You can view the ESPHome documentation at https://esphome.io/

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

{
  "ssl": false,
  "certfile": "fullchain.pem",
  "keyfile": "privkey.pem"
}

Option: ssl

Enables or disables encrypted SSL/TLS (HTTPS) connections to the web server of this add-on. Set it to true to encrypt communications, false otherwise. Please note that if you set this to true you must also generate the key and certificate files for encryption. For example using Let's Encrypt or Self-signed certificates.

Option: certfile

The certificate file to use for SSL. If this file doesn't exist, the add-on start will fail.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default for Home Assistant

Option: keyfile

The private key file to use for SSL. If this file doesn't exist, the add-on start will fail.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default for Home Assistant

Option: leave_front_door_open

Adding this option to the add-on configuration allows you to disable authentication by setting it to true.

Option: relative_url

Host the ESPHome dashboard under a relative URL, so that it can be integrated into existing web proxies like NGINX under a relative URL. Defaults to /.

Option: status_use_ping

By default the dashboard uses mDNS to check if nodes are online. This does not work across subnets unless your router supports mDNS forwarding or avahi.

Setting this to true will make ESPHome use ICMP ping requests to get the node status. Use this if all nodes always have offline status even when they're connected.

Option: streamer_mode

If set to true, this will enable streamer mode, which makes ESPHome hide all potentially private information. So for example WiFi (B)SSIDs (which could be used to find your location), usernames, etc. Please note that you need to use the !secret tag in your YAML file to also prevent these from showing up while editing and validating.