Setting up ESPHome for Home Assistant - ESP32 SMART Home Made EASY!

A simple step-by-step guide to Setting up ESPHome for Home Assistant. This simple guide will explain how ESP home works, how to set it up and how to turn an ESP32 into a smart device capable of controlling any number of devices for your smart home.

A few videos back I promised to make a tutorial on the setup of ESPHome. This is the step by step guide that explain how to go from start to finish connecting an ESP32 to your smart home control center.

If you want to follow along, these are the tools I used in the walk though:

1. ESPHome: https://esphome.io/index.html
2. Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/
3. ESP32: https://geni.us/LB99
4. LED light (with resistor): https://geni.us/vxfV
5. Jumper wires: https://geni.us/MkogSjk
6. Breadboard: https://geni.us/AdB0cA
7. USB cable: https://geni.us/mwgY

Links mentioned in this video:
My configuration for containerized ESPHome: https://gist.github.com/gmorse81/7e23...

Container used for running ESPHome: https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pk...

Home Assistant installation instructions: https://www.home-assistant.io/install...

ESPHome Add-on page: https://esphome.io/guides/getting_sta...

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Requirements - What you need
00:37 - The two components of ESPHome
00:48 - Two ways to install ESPHome
00:58 - The container install method
01:21 - The Add-on Installation method
01:44 - Adding ESPHome to an ESP32
03:26 - Fixing a ESPHome device showing offline
04:05 - Configuring your ESP32 with ESPHome
04:31 - Adding your ESPHome device to Home Assistant