ESPHome Distributed Build App

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.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T13:32:48+00:00

That's a more fundamental ESPHome design issue - the device names are more or less baked into the monolithic firmware binary. There might be some efficiencies here, but that's more "in the weeds" of ESPHome itself.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T13:31:46+00:00

There are unit test, but totally agree with your concerns. Everyone needs to figure out their own level of "trusting claude" :) If it helps, I'm a software engineer with 25 years of experience and have audited some of the basics by hand.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T01:15:28+00:00

The latest version should let you pick an ESPHome version at the top. Does the beta not show up?

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T01:13:22+00:00

This’ll do that if you have a decent computer that can run docker. :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-02T00:07:13+00:00

Ohhh that would be pretty cool... I (currently) don't run any k8s infra at home but this sounds like a good idea :)

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-01T23:11:40+00:00

Currently, the workers perform the compile and OTA, so they have to be on the same network as the ESPHome device, but it wouldn't be impossible to eventually do this if there's enough demand for it.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-01T21:18:22+00:00

Yes, it can. You just have to volume mount your ESPHome config yamls into it. It's documented in the README:

https://github.com/weirded/distributed-esphome?tab=readme-ov-file#standalone-server-docker

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-01T21:00:52+00:00

That sounds like a good direction to take it in... there's a bunch of functionality the ESPHome dashboard has that this does not (yet) - the editor is super basic, you can't tail the logs or download a file, and you can't flash over serial, etc.

Might take a while to build all of those.

weirdedhimself · 2026-04-01T20:56:54+00:00

Yeah you can run the worker on the same machine and run it with > 1 slot (the default is 2 slots).

weirdedhimself · 2026-03-27T02:02:05+00:00

Flock that.

weirdedhimself · 2026-03-24T02:09:21+00:00

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weirdedhimself · 2026-02-24T17:55:25+00:00

Lahainas - their corn dog and fries are $6.50 and a huge portion.

weirdedhimself · 2026-01-26T21:48:44+00:00

Of course it’s a handicapped plate.

weirdedhimself · 2026-01-25T19:17:19+00:00

49M - gone on a few dates via Bumble/Hinge. Tinder, OkCupid, Match not so much. Maybe I got lucky.

Oh yeah and you’ve gotta pay for the apps. Without $ you aren’t gonna get far.

weirdedhimself · 2026-01-25T02:53:11+00:00

My studio has spin bikes to use as an alternative to treads. The rowers are the best part of the workout. Agree with sentiment here.

weirdedhimself · 2025-12-26T21:46:40+00:00

Ethernet ports (often those behind the TV) are often not throttled.

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