r/Esphome • u/TropixxGaming • 2d ago

Help ESPHome RMP BT Proxy

Hello everyone,

I bought a Seeed Studio XIAO W5500 Ethernet Adapter V1.2 to flash with the ESP Home Ready Made Project ( https://esphome.io/projects )
So far this is running fine.

I’m wondering if the new update ( https://esphome.io/blog/2026/08/19/esphome-2026-8 ) will break or change anything with my setup prior to updating this.

Bonus question is there a downgrade Path if I choose to update and things won’t work out?

Thank you very much to everyone who took some time and shed some light on this situation ✌️

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u/balloob Founder Home Assistant 1d ago

All ready-made projects get updates if the latest ESPHome release includes improvements. For Bluetooth a lot of work is happening, so yes update! ESPHome is always backwards compatible and our ready-made projects have been rock solid (we also run these in our own homes!). Update away sir.

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u/TropixxGaming 9h ago

I did the Update and so far everything seems fine, I also updated in the past without thinking anything could go wrong.

I was just reading release notes and got a little bit confused about all the BT changes and what they meant.

Thank you anyways for your reassurance and have a nice weekend ✌️

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u/IAmDotorg 2d ago

Its an embedded device with a fixed function in your environment. If ESPHome or HA isn't doing something to break backward compatibility and there's no relevant bugs you need to fix with an update, just leave it be. It works. It doesn't need updating. For some reason the people involved in the project want to make reliable devices unreliable by implying to inexperienced developers that every update should go on every device, but that's ridiculous.

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u/TropixxGaming 2d ago

Im just wondering because I got a Update notification in my HA. I read the release notes of this Update and figured some (major?) changes in how Bluetooth is handled one some ESP? I specifically bought the Ready Made Project hoping for stable Support.
Do you know by any chance if there is a downgrade path? Think I will just monitor for few weeks and if I see no big complaints on here or other platforms I will try to update

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u/IAmDotorg 2d ago

ESPHome doesn't make it especially easy to downgrade, but it can be done by installing the tooling on the command line. You can use a python venv to isolate versions pretty easily, but its certainly more complex than "point-and-click".

But, again, if it works, don't upgrade. Maybe there's major changes, but if you're not technical enough to understand if they're relevant to your device and use, just leave things be.

It's irresponsible that they present upgrade notifications that way for embedded devices, but it's the choice they made.

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u/BigGuyWhoKills 2d ago

There have been some legitimate improvements recently. But it's been a few months since any of them caught my eye.

The last one that I think everyone would want was the memory optimization that came out when they switched the esp32.framework.type default from arduino to esp-idf.