Home Assistant Actions
Espcontrol needs permission to call Home Assistant actions (like toggling lights or switches) on your behalf. Without this, the touchscreen can display the time and screensaver but buttons won't be able to control your devices.
Your display will prompt you to do this during first-time setup. Follow the steps below.
Enable actions
- Open Home Assistant and go to Settings > Devices & Services and add the discovered device (if the device wasn't discovered, find it's IP address and add it as an ESPHome device).
- Find the ESPHome integration and click on the top half (ESPHome > ), if you click on the number of devices, you'll end up on a different view.
- Find your Espcontrol device in the list. Click the Configure button (gear icon) next to it.
- Check "Allow the device to perform Home Assistant actions" and click Submit.
- Go back to your display and tap Done on the setup screen. Your buttons will now be able to control Home Assistant devices.
One-time setup
You only need to do this once per device. The setting persists across firmware updates and device restarts.
What if I skip this?
You won't be able to control any devices, it will be in a read only state, and entities such as lights, switches, and scenes, won't do anything when tapped.
Device not showing up?
If you don't see your Espcontrol device in the ESPHome integration, it may not have been added to Home Assistant yet. Head back to the Install guide to add it first.