ESP32 Support...

[aaronse]

Hello!

Been using my ESP32 fork #44 for couple of projects for ~yr. However, my forked branch has fallen behind, the pull request included a bunch GUI edits, unrelated to ESP32 port, and I didn't get around to splitting the pull request into more digestible edits. Open to me trying again? This time I'd submit pull request with bare minimum to get OTA and Config working, refraining from GUI and other edits.

Asking because... Am currently working on some more ESP32 projects, trying to figure out whether to create a basic ESP32 port that can merge to main. Doubt I'll be able to get everything working, but hopefully enough that others like me will benefit.

Let me know if it's worth making another attempt, or, if you prefer the main branch to not support optional ESP32 compilation? Noticed </README.md> "many functionalities of this framework are supported by ESP-IDF for the ESP32". I've not looked at ESP-IDF much before, checking it out in the meantime...

Thanks again for creating and extending this framework! Cheers!

aaron

[aaronse]

Can see progress at https://github.com/aaronse/esp8266-iot-framework/tree/esp32.

Lots TODO, but builds, deploys. Limited set of web portal features working.

[aaronse]

Pushed some ESP32 updates implementing/fixing file upload/delete/download and firmware flashing.

Futures: Out of scope for these ESP32 edits. But consider detecting flash progress and completion faster by implementing more aggressive client request timeout (retry with capped backoff) for /api/update-status

[aaronse]

Anyone out there successfully doing ESP32-S2 via PlatformIO within VSCode?

As well as ESP32, am working on a ESP32-S2 project (Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2). Naturally, although ESP32 [esp32dev] deployment works. Am currently unable to get ESP32-S2 framework=arduino to work within VSCode-PlatformIO. Am able to use Arduino IDE 2.0 and MicroPython.

Slowly learning about ESP-IDF ( framework = espidf ), ideally, would like to just get this platform working for ESP32-S2 and just get on with coding rest of my project code. Curious if folks have tutorial recommendations? Am digging through :

• https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVcru1pq9TY

[aaronse]

Anyone out there successfully doing ESP32-S2 via PlatformIO within VSCode? Or, anyone doing ESP32-S2 using something other than CircuitPython?

[Eisbaeeer]

I tried, but don´t get any framework generated in .pio\libdeps\esp32dev
Using a ESP32-C3 board.
WS2812FX example running fine.
Greets

[aaronse]

Hello Lars! Am in Seattle area (~1am), will try again later today and share my setup info. Cheers!

[Eisbaeeer]

Hey, this will be fine. Im located in germany. +2h GMT.
I will try your version and give feedback. Greets

[erikm30]

Question: Do you expect the framework to work with M5Stack Boards with ESP32 ? They look quite neat and would be useful as they integrate a display and the processor in a box.

[aaronse]

Hey, this will be fine. Im located in germany. +2h GMT. I will try your version and give feedback. Greets

@Eisbaeeer created repo with an example helloWorld project that builds and deployed to my heltec ESP32 and M5Stack ESP32.
Example project @ https://github.com/aaronse/esp-iot-framework-examples/tree/main/helloWorld

Note WifiManager.begin() must be called before GUI.begin, see readme.md for details on this and other quirks related to using this framework on ESP32.

[aaronse]

Question: Do you expect the framework to work with M5Stack Boards with ESP32 ? They look quite neat and would be useful as they integrate a display and the processor in a box.

Hello @erikm30, yes, is possible to build a subset of this framework's functionality to work on a ESP32 based M5Stack. Just created an example hello world that uses the edits in this ESP32 Support pull request at helloWorld_M5Stack

Note this pull request as-is doesn't fully implement time sync, secure client or cert store. Grep "TODO:" for details.

That said, I wouldn't blame anyone for using UI Flow, see https://flow.m5stack.com or Micropython instead depending on their requirements and available time.

[aaronse]

Added clone and build instructions to aaronse/esp-iot-framework-examples#1 (comment)

[marcolino7]

Hi @aaronse,
starting make some test with ESP32 versione, I can compile e portal work. I have issue with Time Sync.
Calling timeSync.isSynced() will return false and do not sync time against ntp.

Do you have any suggestion?

Marco

[maakbaas]

Hi aaronse, great work to continue this. In the coming period I think I will have some time to support the effort.

Linked to the discussion in #140 I would propose the following:

• If you create a PR with only ESP32 changes and nothing else, meaning the only thing that is allowed are basically #ifdef ESP32 blocks, I will push this to an ESP32 branch and see where we get 😊.
• Other functionalities will be considered on a change by change basis as PR's to the master repo.

I will try to work with existing issues and PR's this week to try to get to version 1.11.0. We can then use this as a baseline for the ESP32 branch, and I will aim then to move from 1.11.0 to 2.0.0 which will support the ESP32.

[Eisbaeeer]

Hey maakbaas
Can I support you by adding the esp32 to framework?
This will be so great and I have some projects in my tasks.
Greets Lars

[Eisbaeeer]

Hi maakbaas
Can you tell us the ETA of version 2.00? Feel free to contact me to test alpha! ;-)
Greets Lars