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# Installation guide |
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The code must be compiled into a firmware using ESPHome. Therefore, a prerequisite is that you have |
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ESPHome up and running in some form (command line, docker container, web dashboard, possibly from |
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within Home Assistant as an add-on). For information on this, please refer to the documentation on |
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the [ESPHome website](https://esphome.io). |
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The code must be compiled into a firmware using ESPHome v1.19.0 or later. Therefore, a prerequisite |
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is that you have ESPHome up and running in some form (command line, docker container, web dashboard, |
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possibly from within Home Assistant as an add-on). For information on this, please refer to the |
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documentation on the [ESPHome website](https://esphome.io). |
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The component code is distributed directly from GitHub. You will not have to download and install |
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the code manually. This leverages the [external components](https://esphome.io/components/external_components.html) |
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feature that was introduced in ESPHome v1.18.0. Therefore, you must use ESPHome v1.18.0 or newer. |
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feature. |
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Before you can compile the firmware, you will have to create the YAML configuration file for your |
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device. You can take the [`example.yaml`](../example.yaml) from this repository as a starting point, and |
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