Program fails to run about esphome HOT 5 CLOSED

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Many thanks!

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Hi! Probably the installation failed or your python 2 installation is not linked (python environments are complicated....)

• What did pip install esphomeyaml output? Have you tried running pip2 install esphomeyaml? esphomeyaml currently requires Python 2 due to a dependency, so you need to use pip2 to use Python 2.
• What does python2 -m esphomeyaml -h output?

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output from python2 -m edsphomeyaml -h

`python2 -m esphomeyaml -h
usage: esphomeyaml [-h]
configuration
{config,compile,upload,logs,run,clean-mqtt,wizard,mqtt-fingerprint,version}
...

positional arguments:
configuration Your YAML configuration file.
{config,compile,upload,logs,run,clean-mqtt,wizard,mqtt-fingerprint,version}
Commands
config Validate the configuration and spit it out.
compile Read the configuration and compile a program.
upload Validate the configuration and upload the latest
binary.
logs Validate the configuration and show all MQTT logs.
run Validate the configuration, create a binary, upload
it, and start MQTT logs.
clean-mqtt Helper to clear an MQTT topic from retain messages.
wizard A helpful setup wizard that will guide you through
setting up esphomeyaml.
mqtt-fingerprint Get the SSL fingerprint from a MQTT broker.
version Print the esphomeyaml version and exit.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit`

from the pip command

Successfully installed bottle-0.12.13 certifi-2018.4.16 chardet-3.0.4 click-5.1 colorama-0.3.9 colorlog-3.1.4 esphomeyaml-1.5.3 idna-2.6 lockfile-0.12.2 paho-mqtt-1.3.1 platformio-3.5.2 pyserial-3.4 pyyaml-3.12 requests-2.18.4 semantic-version-2.6.0 urllib3-1.22 voluptuous-0.11.1

to confirm, should the full run command be as initially stated, or with python2 infront?

python2 esphomeyaml livingroom.yaml wizard

thanks for the prompt response!

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The full command should usually just be esphomeyaml livingroom.yaml wizard.

However, with python's complicated environment setup, this command style does not always work. I think what's going on here is that in your case the python 2 executables path is not setup in your PATH environment variable.

I'm seeing the same thing happen over at Home Assistant very often - everybody has different python installations and even the packages installed through apt and similar sometimes seem to not do things the right way. So if something is not working as expected, I usually just tell people to use

python2 -m <PROGRAM_NAME> ...

it works in a lot more cases than the shorthand

esphomeyaml ...

So I think in your case, you should be able to just run

python2 -m esphomeyaml livingroom.yaml wizard

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Perfect!

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