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[โ€“] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Connecting the wires is a little finicky at times, but I used a pogo pin clamp which had the right pitch size to make it easy to connect and avoid soldering. Once you get it on ESPhome the first time, you can keep OTA updating new firmware

This walks through what I did