IT LIIIIVES!!! Problem is solved now.

Turns out there was a second problem that meant that communication was not working. My computer. For some reason the front usb ports on my ancient work PC are not functioning correctly. So after I de soldered the "errata solution" as mentioned by ESP_Sprite ...

Hi ESP_Sprite thank you for the input it helps a lot. It takes about 12 hours for my reply to be posted I find so I have tried a few things and made some progress! Still not quite there but I have definitely narrowed it down to a problem with how I setup the CP2012N:

1. On one of the boards I ...

Thank you for the reply! That makes sense because since posting I desoldered Q2 and "flipped" the device by soldering on wires to the correct direction but that did not help. This was meant to be a first test project with just a few sensors to create a minturised environmental monitoring system, I ...

Hi all,

I have a few years of coding arduino, esp8266, esp32 as a hobbyist and decided to build my first custom board based on the esp32-wroom-32e, I thought the best way to make it accessible was through a cp2102n-a02 for the usb to serial conversion. There begins the problems.

The boards arrived ...