Beginner's Guide to ESPHome ESP8266, ESP32, Beken Devices and more

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00:00 Intro
01:45 What is ESPHome?
03:26 Installing ESPHome Dashboard
04:54 Adding your First Device
09:53 Installing/Flashing your First Device
13:01 Adding more components
15:50 Dashboard Options - What do they do?
17:49 Wiring an LED and Button to the NodeMCU
21:14 Adding output/LED
24:37 Adding input/Button
27:48 Linking the button to the LED
29:11 Adding to Home Assistant
31:58 Closing Thoughts

[thosharmon]

Your videos have saved my rear-end so many times. A lot of the others just read through the docs and "blah, blah, blah" you do death, but you actually tell what you're doing (or not doing!) and why. Thank you very much.

[philippe]

Hello,
I'm in the taming phase of Home Assistant. I've enjoyed following the instructions to the letter, so I've learnt a lot and it's helping me to become more and more at ease with the mysteries and power of Home Assistant. Thank you so much!

[alexanderpopov]

Amazing style of explaining fairly complex things very practical and simple. Following your tutorial I was able to setup a whole Home Assistent+ESPHome system in an hour. Now the fun starts!

[HopWorksET]

This video really helped me get over the hump. I mean I went all through the hoops with my CM4, the carrier board, NVME SSD, flashing the EMMC, installing the ESPHome addon, and setting up my ESP32S3, and then the YAML was there and I had no idea where to go from there. Yeah, I know, there is a lot of documentation out there, even convenient with the addon. But this video walks you through it and it is WELL DONE! The lightbulbs flickered over my head and I get it now. And OH MY GOD has this opened up quite a few doors for me. For that sir I sincerely thank you! {subscribed.liked.saved} I appreciate it!!

[kwood]

I've searched for an understandable reference to ESPHome. This is it! Thanks!!

[jimbrewer]

Great video Travis. Very helpful for those just getting into ESPHome, as well as an updated refresh for us that have used it in the past. 🙂

[MikesTropicalTech]

Thanks, I've been searching for the best way for a rocker switch to operate a stepper motor, this helps a lot.!

[kostasa]

Great Great Great tutorial, Travis. The only which can walk a newcomer through to understand the basics. Thanks !!!!

[WoottonRivers]

This is a great video for getting started with ESPHome. I'd like to see more like this.

[francescovanni]

Thanks for the video. I am Italian and I had to watch the video with the Google translation, which is quite painful, but since you explain well and simply I was able to understand. Thanks again and have a nice day.

[JAAPOP]

As a Tasmota addict I avoided ESPHome for years. I also hated the HA guys for a while when they took it on board....
But a while ago I got stuck with an HVAC-application and successfully went the ESPHome route.
Your video helps me to better understand the system. Thanks!

[chrislambe]

Cool video. I use my NodeMCU ESP32 board as an FTDI adapter. Just connect EN to GND to stop it booting and connect the TX, RX, GND and 3.3V pins to another ESP board and flash away. Might have to reverse TX and RX but it works every time. My cheap AliExpress FTDI board cannot deliver enough power so I have to get inventive.

[vbombos]

Knew about ESPs but this is the first time I read about what they can actually do. Pretty good introduction.
I've worked with microcontrollers and I can tell you the reason for labeling pins like D5 is because pins can have multiple features. That D5 pin can be configured to work as a GPIO or as the serial clock for the SPI controller, both features being digital hence the D letter. I've seen microcontrollers where pins can have 4 or 5 features and it makes sense to give them a generic name.

[oscarmauriaca]

Thank you so much! I was thinking about making my own wifi button to turn off all the smart lights in my house and this was a perfect starting point.

[colormaker]

I am new to ESPhome and tried to install on an ESP32Devkit 1. It seem to load program fine and I see the ESP32 on dashboard with green online, but when I try to see logs or update it cannot connect via WIFI. I ordered a few ESP8266 and will give them a try.

[JieBonz]

Thank you for the introduction to ESP Home ❤

[oceanz]

Great Travis! Thank you for this as it is exactly what I needed. Are you going to continue with these tutorials expanding on ESPHome? It would be much appreciated!

[andymok]

Thanks for a great tutorial. I have been playing with EPSHome for some time now. I did a new style project a couple of months back. I added LED strip lighting to my IKEA cabinets. My first project that required to use switches and not just sensors. Did some reading and looked at the example to figure it out. Even got a default LED brightness level coded. Having the transition feature for lights is great. When I get time, I want to add code for a rotary encoder so I can change the brightness level and a few more things and have it shown on the OLED screen I have added as well. I have seen some example code for multiple pages for display stuff and it make my last two working brain cells hurt.

[OveKarlsen-tbou]

Hi. Can I use multiple one wire sensors like the DS18B20?

[venjsystems]

Great intro, I've got a couple of esp32's and an esp8266 floating around and I've been holding off learning ESPHome until I had some projects to build. This was exactly what I needed.