esphometest

This is a basic test to develop custom component. The example is copied from esphome-custom-component

But it fails to compile with error:

src/main.cpp:18:1: error: 'empty_light' does not name a type; did you mean '_daylight'?
empty_light::EmptyLightOutput *empty_light_emptylightoutput;
^~~~~~~~~~~
_daylight
src/main.cpp: In function 'void setup()':
src/main.cpp:156:3: error: 'empty_light_emptylightoutput' was not declared in this scope
empty_light_emptylightoutput = new empty_light::EmptyLightOutput();
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src/main.cpp:156:38: error: 'empty_light' does not name a type; did you mean '_daylight'?
empty_light_emptylightoutput = new empty_light::EmptyLightOutput();
                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~
                                    _daylight

I'm building using the latest docker esphome Stuck for a very long time now and feel I've tried changing everything :(

FIXED

Thanks to the forum similar topics suggestion I finally found the solution to my problem in minutes. Turns our esphome expects an empty init.py file in your custom component folder. In my case since I was using the ‘light’ component I had ‘light.py’ but no init.py file. Simply adding an empty init.py file fixed the compilation issue.