Max Gramser
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- The app listens for the Home Assistant events esp_screens_show_alert and esp_screens_dismiss_alert and calls each screen's show_alert/dismiss_alert action, screens added later included. Fields are typed like Home Assistant's ESPHome action schema; an unusable value is left empty instead of losing the alert. - Settings → Claude installs an ESP Screens skill for Claude Code in Home Assistant (/homeassistant/.claude/skills/esp-screens) or downloads it as a zip for claude.ai. It is generated from the alert reference, so fields, colors and icons match the firmware. - New screen, Firmware & USB, firmware updates, Alerts and Claude move to a Settings view; the header keeps one button. Unselected screens in My screens get a light grey card. App only; firmware stays 0.2.38. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Installation and everyday use
See the full installation guide.
Open Settings → New screen to install a screen: connect it via USB to the
Home Assistant machine, choose the board, name and USB port, then click Install.
The profile with unique keys goes into the ESPHome folder of the HA configuration,
any missing Wi-Fi goes into secrets.yaml (existing secrets are left untouched), and the
build and flash run in the same window; it then shows the API key
for pairing. Pairing itself happens in Home Assistant under Settings → Devices & services (a button in the window and on the not yet in Home Assistant card under My screens). Each screen has its own profile. Settings → Firmware & USB is
for existing profiles: check, build or reinstall via USB or
the IP address (OTA). Existing ESPHome profiles in the HA config folder are
found automatically.
Settings (top right) also has the nightly firmware updates, the Alerts cheatsheet
(an alert on one screen, or on every screen with the esp_screens_show_alert event)
and Claude: install the ESP Screens skill for Claude Code in Home Assistant, or
download it for claude.ai, and ask Claude for the alert automation.
At the top of the editor you set the Top bar for each screen: the name on the left, up to six items on the right (time, analog clock, date, or an entity with an icon, such as temperature, a door, the alarm, or "last changed"). Drag to reorder, tap to configure; firmware 0.2.32 or newer renders them.
After pairing via the HA ESPHome integration, choose the tiles in ESP Screens. Tile settings has click behavior, larger values and mini-sliders. Screen settings has brightness and standby. Inspector helps with missing attributes or an offline screen. New cards require firmware 0.2.0.