Debugging 'HA not found' on ESP-32-S3 device

[tardy pine]

I bought one of those xiaozhi balls from Ali express and have been flashing this code https://github.com/RealDeco/xiaozhi-esphome (I have the V2) The code compiles and then needs to be flashed over USB. Most of the time though, the display just shows "HA not found" a couple of times I did see the smiley face but it wouldn't respond to wakeword and HA did not discover it. The code in the repo has :
api: on_client_connected: - script.execute: draw_display on_client_disconnected: - script.execute: draw_display
but I've tried reducing to just api: without any success, I'm also not clear if I should be trying to use an API encryption key here or not, Thanks

I should add that I'm on ESPHome 2025.5.2 (without the ability to roll back) and I saw on FB that there may be some issues with it but I couldn't figure out what they were 🙂

[tardy pine]

nm, figured it out. I was expecting HA to show me the orange blob notification to tell me it had found it, but instead I had to go into devices to find it had been discovered.