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• esphome: Contains the name, platform, and board type that you set up.
• logger: The logger component automatically logs all log messages through the serial port and through MQTT
topics.
• api: The ESPHome native API is used to communicate with clients directly, with a highly-optimized network
protocol. Currently, only the ESPHome tool and Home Assistant use this native API.
• ota: With the OTA (Over The Air) update component you can upload your firmware binaries to your node
without having to use a USB cable for uploads.
• wifi: This core ESPHome component sets up WiFi connections to access points for you. It needs to be in your
configuration or otherwise ESPHome will fail in the config validation stage.
• captive_portal: The captive portal component in ESPHome is a fallback mechanism for when connecting to
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