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
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See [the full installation guide](https://github.com/MaxGramser/homeassistant_espscreen/blob/main/docs/EASY_SETUP.md).
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Open **Settings → New screen** to install a screen: connect it via USB to the
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Home Assistant machine, choose the board, name and USB port, then click **Install**.
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The profile with unique keys goes into the ESPHome folder of the HA configuration,
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any missing Wi-Fi goes into `secrets.yaml` (existing secrets are left untouched), and the
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build and flash run in the same window; it then shows the API key
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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
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for existing profiles: check, build or reinstall via USB or
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the IP address (OTA). Existing ESPHome profiles in the HA config folder are
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found automatically.
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**Settings** (top right) also has the nightly firmware updates, the **Alerts** cheatsheet
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(an alert on one screen, or on every screen with the `esp_screens_show_alert` event)
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and **Claude**: install the ESP Screens skill for Claude Code in Home Assistant, or
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download it for claude.ai, and ask Claude for the alert automation.
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At the top of the editor you set the **Top bar** for each screen: the name on the left, up
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to six items on the right (time, analog clock, date, or an entity with an icon, such as
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temperature, a door, the alarm, or "last changed"). Drag to reorder, tap
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to configure; firmware 0.2.32 or newer renders them.
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After pairing via the HA ESPHome integration, choose the tiles in ESP Screens.
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**Tile settings** has click behavior, larger values and mini-sliders.
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**Screen settings** has brightness and standby. **Inspector** helps with
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missing attributes or an offline screen. New cards require firmware 0.2.0.
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