esphome / esphome/feature-requests
Allow "Blacklisting" of Specified Serial Ports Displayed for ESPHome Serial Connection
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Description
**Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like**
Allow a CONFIGURABLE Serial Port "Exclusion List" to prevent specified Serial Ports from being selected for ESPHome Logging and Upload Operations.
**Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:**
My HA Instance includes the Network UPS Tools (NUT) Addon which monitors my UPS via Serial Port. If the UPS's Serial Port is MISTAKENLY CHOSEN for ESPHome, NUT fails, requiring a MANUAL NUT restart.
**Additional context**
It should be possible to add ports to an "Exclusion List" to prevent them from being shown / selected.

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Research direction
Start by reviewing the ESPHome serial connection workflow and how ports are displayed and selected for logging and upload operations. The work is complete when a configurable exclusion list prevents specified ports from being shown or selected, without disrupting other serial-port users such as NUT.
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Assessment
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100