Testing docker version

[homonto]

Hi brother,
first of all: AMAZING PROJECT

now lets to go some issues:
1- even when I specified the esphome config folder in docker-compose.yaml it does not show esphome projects on dashboard

2- while building in advanced mode I got error:
project name needs to have a namespace.
why is this a must? ;-)

here my config:

 cat .env 
TZ=Europe/London
ECD_PORT=8099
ECD_USE_ESPHOME_SHARED_PATH=true

# Recommended for standalone deployments exposed on a LAN.
# Set ECD_AUTH_MODE=none only if another trusted layer handles access.
ECD_AUTH_MODE=basic
ECD_AUTH_USERNAME=admin
ECD_AUTH_PASSWORD=password

here my docker:

services:
  ecd:
    image: ghcr.io/sokolsok/esp-config-designer:latest
    container_name: ecd
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: ${TZ:-Europe/London}
      ECD_MODE: standalone
      ECD_PORT: ${ECD_PORT:-8099}
      ECD_USE_ESPHOME_SHARED_PATH: ${ECD_USE_ESPHOME_SHARED_PATH:-false}
      ECD_AUTH_MODE: ${ECD_AUTH_MODE:-basic}
      ECD_AUTH_USERNAME: ${ECD_AUTH_USERNAME:-admin}
      ECD_AUTH_PASSWORD: ${ECD_AUTH_PASSWORD:-password}
    volumes:
      - ./my-path-to-esphome-config:/config
      - ./data:/data
      - ./build:/build
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

[sokolsok]

As for the first issue, it looks like a path problem.
Try setting ECD_USE_ESPHOME_SHARED_PATH=false just for testing, then create a new project and let’s see if it shows up in the Dashboard.

As for the second one, I need to think about it a bit more

[homonto]

I will test point 1 but I realised that:
1- ECD /config is not the final path - inside it, there is still folder "esphome" so on ECD the full path where projects are stored is:

/config/esphome/my-ecdproject.yaml

what should be then the volume mapping if I have all esphome projects in the path:
/mypath/my-esphomeproject.yaml

I have point 3:
1- HA can see the project and works nice from HA - can be controlled as every other esphome device, even updated
2- ESPHome dashboard can see the device online and can connect for logs over wifi
HOWEVER:
3- ECD dashboard does NOT see project connected over wifi - it is still offline (although it is connected to the wifi and HA) - only serial updates are possible so also no LOGs from ECD - how does ECD connects to the device over wifi?

[homonto]

OK, testing
with ECD_USE_ESPHOME_SHARED_PATH=false the path to ECD projects is (inside container)

/config/ecd/my-ecd-project.yaml

while with true it is
/config/esphome/my-ecd-project.yaml

[homonto]

As for the second one, I need to think about it a bit more

actually I figured it out: project name must be xxx.yyy WITHOUT space ;-) so the error message is wrong - when I do with dot instead of space it is OK

[homonto]

point 4:
latest ESPHome version: Firmware: 2026.6.2 (2026-06-20 21:48:47 +0100)
latest version of ECD: ESPHome 2026.4.5

maybe you could synchronise it to be always the latest of ESPHome - they recently introduced some breaking changes - these 2 versions are too far from each other

[sokolsok]

Done. I updated the ESPHome version to 2026.6.4.

[homonto]

the point 3 you did not touch:
I have point 3:
1- HA can see the project and works nice from HA - can be controlled as every other esphome device, even updated
2- ESPHome dashboard can see the device online and can connect for logs over wifi
HOWEVER:
3- ECD dashboard does NOT see project connected over wifi - it is still offline (although it is connected to the wifi and HA) - only serial updates are possible so also no LOGs from ECD - how does ECD connects to the device over wifi?

[sokolsok]

ECD does not currently read the list of already known devices from Home Assistant or from the ESPHome Builder dashboard. It keeps its own small device registry.
A device is added to that registry after it is deployed from ECD. After that, the ECD dashboard polls that registered host, usually <node_name>.local, and uses ESPHome CLI for OTA/logs.

So if the device was originally created/flashed with ESPHome Builder, and then an equivalent project was manually created in ECD, ECD may not yet know that this project is already deployed to a real device. In that case the dashboard may show it as offline because the device was never registered/tracked by ECD, even though HA and ESPHome Builder can see it correctly.

Could you confirm if this device was ever flashed/uploaded from ECD, or was it only flashed from ESPHome Builder before creating the ECD project?

[homonto]

I am talking device done by ECD only - not visible as CONNECTED from ECD dashboard however ESPHome dashboard sees it as connected (the yaml is in common folder for ECD and ESPHome)