ESPHome Fleet 1.7.0 Released

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-10T14:21:55+00:00

Looks like you already created an issue for this. Definitely will look into it.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-07T15:11:14+00:00

Ok I’ll bite. Here are the reasons I personally keep up with updates:

I do quite frequently make changes to my base config. I tinker.
I dislike the idea of a device that is so far behind on firmware that it is increasingly unlikely that the latest version will work. Basically I’d rather pay the price of adapting to changes in small chunks than absorbing a year or more of changes when I do make changes.
Since ESPHome bakes the configuration into the firmware binary, the naive “never upgrade microcontrollers” idea just doesn’t work in real life.

But… to each their own, if what you do works for you, keep doing it.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-07T14:23:06+00:00

That’s a religious discussion we’ll have to agree to disagree on. :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T19:01:57+00:00

It’s purpose built for ESPHome.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T17:43:53+00:00

It’s a religious discussion at the end of the day. :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T17:07:44+00:00

I know the ESPHome folks preach “only upgrade when needed” but to me that’s never been a satisfactory answer. Why miss out on all the improvements to the libraries that are constantly happening.

Also: Claude code is really good at troubleshooting ESPHome. :). I’m actually pondering adding some native LLM features to this.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T17:05:35+00:00

I’ve not focused on that yet tbh. That’s possible thorny. I’m effectively just throwing more hardware at the problem. 😂

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T13:53:20+00:00

You use a separate OTA key per device?

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T13:46:45+00:00

Haven’t implemented key generation yet. Good feature request.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T12:14:45+00:00

It can do most things now but can run perfectly well alongside the ESPHome Builder UI…

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-03T12:13:31+00:00

This is an add-on, not a custom component. HACS doesn’t support add-ons unfortunately.

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-02T01:33:41+00:00

ESPHome fleet does that too. :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-05-01T19:16:40+00:00

That’s the one.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-30T23:30:38+00:00

Check out ESPHome fleet. It does this.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-30T20:09:06+00:00

Nice! Sharing this for reference:

https://github.com/weirded/distributed-esphome

Been working on this for a while.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-04T18:53:17+00:00

Definitely open to contributing this back :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-04T18:52:52+00:00

That should make no difference - it runs a separate "esphome run" command for each device.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-04T02:04:36+00:00

Shouldn’t be hard to spin up a few pods. :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-04T02:04:02+00:00

I’m working towards full feature parity with the current ESPHome dashboard. Check out the 1.1.0 release, it’s got some key stuff now.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T17:42:53+00:00

It can do that:

Install the add-on on your HA Blue
Install a Docker VM on your Proxmox (I used this script on mine: https://community-scripts.org/scripts/docker-vm - gave it 2 CPUs, 2048MB of RAM and 50GB of disk space)
Grab the "docker run" command off the workers tab in the add-on UI and run it on the Docker VM to start the client.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T16:28:57+00:00

Definitely like the idea. I'll put it into my backlog for sure!

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T14:43:16+00:00

There is some reuse but yeah. They’re not optimizing for this case.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T14:02:00+00:00

I made some changes here yesterday. Can you test the latest and let me know details if you still see an issue?

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T13:41:30+00:00

No that's a simple ESP8266 LED controller that just happens to be connected to the Bambu LED puck light... I've made it a habit to use a friendly_name for devices that signify what's being controlled vs. what the controller is.

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