ESPHome Basic Setup For All ESP Devices 

Glad I could help!

My pleasure!

Thank you, you check out the series on the Room Sensor where I am building a room sensor packed with usefull sensors, the 2nd one is probably coming out tomorrow around 15:00 UTC

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you.

Thank you

My pleasure

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, will do!

You're welcome!

Glad I could help, a channel update is coming soon, lot's of exiting stuff coming.

Thank you

Yeah! Live stream for a 1000?

I apologize for the late response, I’ve been tied up to an hospital bed since last Saturday, I am still there. This happens because older WiFi protocols do not “like” underscores in the host name, most modern WiFi protocols are not as fussy, hence the warning. Having said that I find it odd that I did not pick up my oversight, I’ll need to compare the code of the video and my GitHub. This will have to happen when I return home. Thank you for pointing it out. - Pascal

Wait until Saturday’s livestream where I’ll show more advanced ways to do the code and stream line it even more. I’ll check the link, thanks.

Hey Miguel, Thank you, though a tweaked the structure to allow for a few other things, unfortunately the next video will probably only be available in a couple of weeks 😟. My body is not leaving a choice. 1. Your assumption is correct, I use a single randomized password and key for all my devices. It makes life so much easier with very little drawbacks security wise as all the devices are within my internal network.

2. Well that too, the only one I change is the IP Address, I keep a spreadsheet for that

Thank you for the support

Correct, the fix is explained here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wcUDYzLFjQ0.html

@@homeautomatorza Thank you!

You can try 2 things, 1. Reboot the Home Assistant machine, that worked for me last time. 2. You may be short on memory, that would require more RAM. If you have 4Gb or more this should not be a problem though.

Yes I am using the same API key and it’s working. It makes management so much easier

I am not sure I understand, but here are 2 things you can try 1. Is device_internal_name defined? 2. Are you typing as follows: id: ${device_internal_name}_status Lastly, are you doing this in ESPHome or Home Assistant ? The code that I have on GitHub is fully tested, except for the ota change there is nothing else that should break it. Can you maybe paste the full error, so I can help?

Sure will do, am using in esphome in home assistant. Will message you in the morning, many thanks, Michael

@@homeautomatorza I have a screen shot of the error code and the actions that have run before it. is there anyway i can forward this to you at all please ?

@@homeautomatorza INFO ESPHome 2024.6.6 INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/foundation-device.yaml... WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_status' (see binary_sensor->0->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_wifi_signal_sensor' (see sensor->0->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_sensor' (see sensor->1->name) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_human' (see sensor->1->on_raw_value->then->0->text_sensor.template.publish->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found 'int seconds = round(id(${device_internal_name}_uptime_sensor).raw_state); int days = seconds / (24 * 3600); seconds = seconds % (24 * 3600); int hours = seconds / 3600; seconds = seconds % 3600; int minutes = seconds / 60; seconds = seconds % 60; return ( (days ? to_string(days) + "d " : "") + (hours ? to_string(hours) + "h " : "") + (minutes ? to_string(minutes) + "m " : "") + to_string(seconds) + "s") ).c_str();' (see sensor->1->on_raw_value->then->0->text_sensor.template.publish->state) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_ip_address' (see text_sensor->0->ip_address->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_connected_ssid' (see text_sensor->0->ssid->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_mac_address' (see text_sensor->0->mac_address->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_human' (see text_sensor->2->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_status' (see binary_sensor->0->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_wifi_signal_sensor' (see sensor->0->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_sensor' (see sensor->1->name) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_human' (see sensor->1->on_raw_value->then->0->text_sensor.template.publish->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found 'int seconds = round(id(${device_internal_name}_uptime_sensor).raw_state); int days = seconds / (24 * 3600); seconds = seconds % (24 * 3600); int hours = seconds / 3600; seconds = seconds % 3600; int minutes = seconds / 60; seconds = seconds % 60; return ( (days ? to_string(days) + "d " : "") + (hours ? to_string(hours) + "h " : "") + (minutes ? to_string(minutes) + "m " : "") + to_string(seconds) + "s") ).c_str();' (see sensor->1->on_raw_value->then->0->text_sensor.template.publish->state) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_ip_address' (see text_sensor->0->ip_address->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_connected_ssid' (see text_sensor->0->ssid->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_mac_address' (see text_sensor->0->mac_address->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING Found '${device_internal_name}_uptime_human' (see text_sensor->2->id) which looks like a substitution, but 'device_internal_name' was not declared WARNING 'esphome_foundation_device': Using the '_' (underscore) character in the hostname is discouraged as it can cause problems with some DHCP and local name services. For more information, see esphome.io/guides/faq.html#why-shouldn-t-i-use-underscores-in-my-device-name WARNING GPIO2 is a strapping PIN and should only be used for I/O with care. Attaching external pullup/down resistors to strapping pins can cause unexpected failures. See esphome.io/guides/faq.html#why-am-i-getting-a-warning-about-strapping-pins INFO Detected timezone 'Europe/London' Failed config binary_sensor.status: [source /config/esphome/foundation-device.yaml:111] platform: status name: Status IDs must only consist of upper/lowercase characters, the underscorecharacter and numbers. The character '$' cannot be used. id: ${device_internal_name}_status

@@homeautomatorza Hello Pascal, i have uploaded the error code for you to review if you would be so kind please ?