My experience onboarding LocalDeck

hunterdrayman

What an excellent bit of kit! Well done, Adam! It takes some effort and expense to produce something of this quality and engineer it into Home Assistant such that my onboarding experience was (nearly) painless.

I got the device itself up and running with Improv and ESPHome very quickly and played around with the HA entities for a while, then I ran into trouble on two counts:

I couldn’t find a link to the configurator add-on from the YouTube ‘getting started’ video. Got there eventually though. Then it took me a while to differentiate the configurator repo from the hass-addons/configurator repo.
While I searched for this my ESPHome logs were filling up with these messages:
[09:57:28][W][api.connection:092]: : Socket operation failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11 [09:57:28][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_21': Sending state ON [09:57:29][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_21': Sending state OFF [09:57:29][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_21': Sending state ON [09:57:29][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_07': Sending state OFF [09:57:29][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_07': Sending state ON [09:57:29][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'keypad_row_21': Sending state OFF

Is this normal or is has my device got issues? I suspect the latter.

Then HA’s disk filled up and I had to do some emergency maintenance and then set the LocalDeck log level to WARN before I could continue.

So with the configurator now installed that’s where I am now. Looks promising!

AAllport

hunterdrayman What an excellent bit of kit! Well done, Adam!

Thank you so much for saying this!
It’s been a labour of love to launch this into the wild!

hunterdrayman I couldn’t find a link to the configurator add-on from the YouTube ‘getting started’ video.

Heard! We’re reviewing how we presented all of the documents for this one.
Bottom line: we could have, and should have, done better (and will do better next time).

hunterdrayman While I searched for this my ESPHome logs were filling up with these messages
[…] Is this normal or is has my device got issues?

That’s expected behaviour…
In short, there was an issue in ESPHome, which meant the pin wasn’t correctly configured when setting up the Matrix Keypad component.
As such, we had a temporary solution to add binary sensors to the pins to trigger setup correctly.
We raised a PR, which was merged into ESPHome 2024.8, with a corresponding fix in Configurator v0.6.

hunterdrayman So with the configurator now installed that’s where I am now. Looks promising!

If you run into any other hitches, please don’t be afraid to reach out!