Hi
I have 3 espressif esp32s doing various things around the house, they weren't any trouble setting up.
I just purchased some elegoo ESP-wroom board type-c boards and i cant for the life of me upload anything to them from arduino ide.
i have the espressif library installed but it keeps throwing errors:
firstly it gets to Hard reseting vie rts pin
it sits here for AGES
my code is literally 17 lines long.
i am not sure if i am maybe using the wrong library?
thanks
cue340
having trouble with a elegoo
Re: having trouble with a elegoo
https://www.reddit.com/r/elegoo/comment ... mentation/
seems other people are having similar issues, It might even be fake.
does anyone know if i am just completely wasting my time?
seems other people are having similar issues, It might even be fake.
does anyone know if i am just completely wasting my time?
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RandomInternetGuy
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Re: having trouble with a elegoo
> It might even be fake.
There are no known fake ESP32 chips.
There are low quality BOARDS using the ESP32 and there are certainly boards that look like the Espressif reference designs but, well, they're reference designs that kind of encourage that.
> Throwing errors
Maybe the contents of those errors would be helpful. That is about as helpful toward a helpful diagnosis as like telling your mechanic "it acts funny".
Elegoo is a big company that makes hundreds (thousands?) of things, and several which match this description. The first link on their site matching that description claimed to have an ARM CPU in that ESP32, so I can't exactly hold them in high regard.
If an authentic Espressif board works and an Elegoo board fails in some way, well, we'll let your troubleshooting skills take it from there. In general, for any ESP32 board, you should be able to hold the boot button, release the reset button, and see "serial stuff" appear on the serial console. If the serial interface (or equivalent, depending on model - the console port, whereever it is) is connected to a PC-like think you need an appropriate driver/software to read that serial boot message.
There should never be "ages" involved. It'll either boot or it'll crash.
Once connectivity is established, you can run esptool to erase the flash and upload a "hello world" program. Then you can proceed to debug your 17 line program.
There are no known fake ESP32 chips.
There are low quality BOARDS using the ESP32 and there are certainly boards that look like the Espressif reference designs but, well, they're reference designs that kind of encourage that.
> Throwing errors
Maybe the contents of those errors would be helpful. That is about as helpful toward a helpful diagnosis as like telling your mechanic "it acts funny".
Elegoo is a big company that makes hundreds (thousands?) of things, and several which match this description. The first link on their site matching that description claimed to have an ARM CPU in that ESP32, so I can't exactly hold them in high regard.
If an authentic Espressif board works and an Elegoo board fails in some way, well, we'll let your troubleshooting skills take it from there. In general, for any ESP32 board, you should be able to hold the boot button, release the reset button, and see "serial stuff" appear on the serial console. If the serial interface (or equivalent, depending on model - the console port, whereever it is) is connected to a PC-like think you need an appropriate driver/software to read that serial boot message.
There should never be "ages" involved. It'll either boot or it'll crash.
Once connectivity is established, you can run esptool to erase the flash and upload a "hello world" program. Then you can proceed to debug your 17 line program.
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