# Diyhue cant find esphome light
**URL:** https://diyhue.discourse.group/t/diyhue-cant-find-esphome-light/153
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://diyhue.discourse.group/t/diyhue-cant-find-esphome-light/153 "2020-08-07T00:43:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@gordon130](https://diyhue.discourse.group/u/gordon130)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://diyhue.discourse.group/t/diyhue-cant-find-esphome-light/153/1 "2020-08-07T00:43:30Z")
i have a led up and running on esphome through home assistant, i have added hue to home assistant and it can see my other lights. but my esp led cant be found in the hue app
```auto
esphome:
name: backlight
platform: ESP8266
board: esp8285
wifi:
ssid: "..."
password: "....."
# Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
ap:
ssid: "Backlight Fallback Hotspot"
password: "123456789"
captive_portal:
# Enable logging
logger:
level: DEBUG
# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
password: "PI"
ota:
password: "PI"
# this is code for the RGBW version of magichome
light:
- platform: rgbw
name: back light
red: pwm_r
green: pwm_g
blue: pwm_b
white: pwm_w
output:
- platform: esp8266_pwm
pin: GPIO5
frequency: 1000 Hz
id: pwm_r
- platform: esp8266_pwm
pin: GPIO12
frequency: 1000 Hz
id: pwm_g
- platform: esp8266_pwm
pin: GPIO13
frequency: 1000 Hz
id: pwm_b
- platform: esp8266_pwm
pin: GPIO15
frequency: 1000 Hz
id: pwm_w
text_sensor:
- platform: template
name: "colour_rgbw"
id: light_id
lambda: |-
return {"esphome_diyhue_light;dc:4f:22:87:9e:bf:b0;backlight;CT-BOOST;RGB-BOOST"};
update_interval: 24h
web_server:
port: 80
```
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### Author:  [@alex](https://diyhue.discourse.group/u/alex)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://diyhue.discourse.group/t/diyhue-cant-find-esphome-light/153/2 "2020-08-08T04:10:14Z")
As with the last post, read the wiki entirely.