Add modular configuration system with multi-board support

[josefelixh]

Summary

This PR introduces a flexible, modular ESPHome configuration architecture that makes it easy to switch between different ESP board types and enable/disable optional features without manually editing GPIO pins or framework settings.

Motivation

The current single-file configuration works well but has some limitations:

• Switching between ESP32-C3, ESP32, and ESP8266 requires manual changes to GPIO pins and framework settings
• Optional features (like remote logging) clutter the main configuration when not needed
• First-time USB setup can be challenging for users unfamiliar with serial port detection
• Cross-platform setup varies between macOS, Linux, and Windows

This modular system addresses these pain points while maintaining full compatibility with all existing Neato robot functionality.

What's New

📦 Modular Configuration Files

• neato-esp-modular.yaml: Main configuration with simple board/feature selection via comments
• Board configs (boards/): ESP32-C3 (recommended), ESP32, and ESP8266 with correct GPIO/framework settings
• Optional features (features/): Captive portal, syslog remote logging, and debug tools
• secrets.yaml.example: Clear template with examples for all configuration options

🛠️ Cross-Platform Helper Scripts

• esphome.sh: Bash script for macOS/Linux/Windows (Git Bash) with automatic USB port detection
• esphome.ps1: Native PowerShell script for Windows users
• Both scripts support Docker and native ESPHome installations with auto-detection

📚 Documentation

• CONFIGURATION_GUIDE.md: Comprehensive setup guide with troubleshooting section

Key Features

✅ Easy board switching - Change boards by commenting/uncommenting one line
✅ Modular features - Enable captive portal, syslog, or debug tools independently
✅ Auto USB detection - Scripts automatically find serial ports for first-time uploads
✅ Cross-platform - Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows (Git Bash + PowerShell)
✅ Docker + Native - Supports both Docker and pip-installed ESPHome
✅ Configurable WiFi domain - Set custom mDNS domain via substitution (defaults to .lan)
✅ Fully validated - All features tested together, maintains existing functionality

Example Usage

Switching Boards

packages:
  board: !include boards/esp32c3.yaml    # ✓ Using ESP32-C3
  # board: !include boards/esp32.yaml    # Switch to ESP32
  # board: !include boards/esp8266.yaml  # Switch to ESP8266

Enabling Features

# Uncomment any features you want:
captive_portal: !include
  file: features/captive-portal.yaml
  optional: true

Using Helper Scripts

# First-time USB upload (auto-detects port)
./esphome.sh usb-run

# Subsequent wireless updates
./esphome.sh run

Testing

• ✅ Validated configuration with all features enabled simultaneously
• ✅ Tested board config for ESP32-C3 (other configs will need to be tested, confirmed by other users)
• ✅ Verified script functionality on macOS (bash)

Future Enhancements

Potential additions (not included in this PR):

• Additional optional features (e.g., web server, Prometheus metrics)
• Configuration presets for common setups
• Migration helper script for existing configurations

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Co-Authored-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com

[ostat]

Splitting up the yaml to separate modules is a nice idea.

Could we also put the neato specific config in to its own file? Then we could reference it in our local esphome config with something like this:

packages:
  neato: github://Philip2809/neato-connected/packages/neato-connected.yaml

[Dorikumi]

Looks very nice and would had helped me a lot.
Can you add the esp32-c3 supermini? Several people adviced to not use gpio 20/21 but rather gpio 0/1 on this boards.

There is no mention of Homeassistants ESPHome builder as option for compiling in the readme.

[Philip2809]

sorry for never writing about it here but just in the discord, I want to implement this but want to do in in some specific ways, both splitting up the handling of uart system to cpp files but also the config files to a modular system similar to this one here, but at the same time the end user needs to be able to only input data in one file and it should compile for them. Of course if they want they can get each module as they want/please but a base should work on that simple principle. This is however not my prio task for now, I played a bit with a module config a while ago but was not able to find something that I liked, will revisit this after a ros release.