The fix for the 100% CPU hang you hit is on the develop branch of the ESPHome Fleet repo. 1.6.2 hasn't cut a stable release yet, but every commit on develop publishes a signed Docker image to GitHub Container Registry that Home Assistant Supervisor can install directly. These steps swap your add-on over to that dev channel.
- You'll add a second add-on repository to Home Assistant, pointing at the
developbranch. The add-on you have now came from the same GitHub repo'smainbranch. - Supervisor will pull a fresh prebuilt image from GHCR (no local build). The install is a download, not a compile — on a decent connection it takes under a minute.
- Your existing add-on data — job queue, settings, device cache, git-versioned config history, scheduled jobs — is keyed by the add-on's slug, which is identical between the stable and dev channels. It persists across the swap.
- When 1.6.2 ships stable you can switch back, or