ESPHome Basic Setup For All ESP Devices

In this tutorial, I will be explaining in details my foundation configuration for all ESP devices.
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▶ Timestamps ⌚:
00:00 - Opening
01:51 - About this tutorial
04:12 - The code
05:36 - Substitutions
07:05 - Naming convention
07:53 - Globals
10:02 - Board Configuration
11:42 - Frameworks
17:19 - Logging
18:19 - Home Assistant API
20:12 - Over-the-air updates
21:52 - WiFi
26:40 - Web Server
27:54 - Status LED
28:39 - Time
30:35 - Binary Sensors
31:35 - WiFi Sensor
32:27 - Uptime Sensor
33:55 - Text Sensors
36:21 - Switches
37:11 - Intervals
38:02 - Compiling the code
38:36 - Uploading the firmware to the ESP32
39:37 - Demo of the Web Server
41:20 - Demo of the Home Assistant integration
43:01 - Recap

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[craigritchie]

Absolutely hands down the best ESPHome video I’ve seen to date. Great information here.

[WyattSmith]

Great video. Now I know how to connect my ESP32’s to Home Assistant. Excellent start!

[miguelavello]

Wow Pascal another fantastic video. You definitely Rock !!!!
Thank you for all your effort putting this together.

[herrgerd]

Got into HA and ESPHome a few months ago. This video is so absolutely packed with information. Amazing!

[GeoViljoen]

Excellent tutorial, I really enjoyed this video. I learnt a lot...

[tamilquotesdaily]

Thank you so much for knowledge transfer its really helpful.😀😀

[jimbo]

I have been tearing my my hair out the last few days. Pascal, thank you so much. Everything I was looking for and more. Thanks again. Jim

[karlOFuchs]

Thx Pascal. I have been playing a while with ESPHome and started to work on a basic setup template. Your style, tempo and amount of info you shared is excellent. Well done.

[bigskaggs]

You have done a great job with your videos with explaining what things do so we can understand them rather than what is the usual with other tutorials that are "do this, do this, do that" and no explanation. I am doing this as both serving my home and improving my life but also as a healthy brain hobby. As such I may want to try things out and reuse an ESP32 for other sensors or devices. Any chance you'll do a video on wiping a esp32 for reuse and clearing it from EspHome?

[birkey]

I have watched a ton of tutorials on youtube and you go the extra mile to explain why versus just showing what to do. I look forward to subscribing to your channel

[manukalias]

Very detailed info why and what to follow 👍
Got your channel suggested 1st time in 4+ year with home assistant learning 😅
Love and respect from India 🙏🙏

[johnny-dom]

Amazing good video. Please keep up the good work🎉

[citricguy]

Thank you. I'm just getting started and this was a fantastic introduction.

[sven]

This is excellent, just looking into esp home, and learnt so much here.
Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
New subscriber 👍

[marko]

Nice video. I also have 20 active esphome devices and wrote template for all my new devices. I'm using mostly D1 mini's(8266) because of the small size. Easier to 3D-print boxes;-) I have missed OTA details and globals altogether. Thanks for the tips 👍👍

[NoCPU]

What a fantastic video. Gave me lots to think about

[rolfvreijdenberger]

tnx, will use the template from the site

[miguelavello]

Thanks for the reply. I am structuring all my new devices that I am adding to have your suggestion structure approach.
The old devices I think I have to reload the firmware (won't work OTA) with the new secrets structures..

[parstalberg]

If you use a underscore on the "device_internal_name" value you will get an notification when compiling that you should not use underscore for the host name for the device. And if yo use a - instead then it's not compiling as you can't use - in ids.

[orandaadnaro]

Pascal - A very elegant and streamlined way of coding a standard 'foundation' for esp home devices. Thank you.

BTW the second link above to the code, doesn't work.