platform-espressif32 VS esp-homekit-arduino-sdk

It seems like Espressif are in the same situation as Pi w/r/t PlatformIO[1]. As an outsider, it sounds like PlatformIO was trying to extract a very large annual payment from RPi and Espressif, and that was after the initial support was added in, and some of the community started adopting it.

It's a weird situation, but I think PlatformIO built up a dominant position by supporting all these platforms and accepting community contributions to do so, then tried extracting value from the manufacturers directly after the fact, blocking further community PRs that would add new board revisions or fix bugs. See related: [2]

[1] https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/12...

[2] https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36

[env:esp32-s3] platform = espressif32 ;https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git board = esp32-s3-devkitc-1 framework = arduino monitor_speed = 115200 lib_deps = ${common.lib_deps} build_flags = -D MONITOR_SPEED=115200 -D ARDUINO_USB_MODE=1 -D ARDUINO_USB_CDC_ON_BOOT=1 board_build.flash_mode = qio

[env:esp32-s3-devkitc-1-n16r8v] platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git framework = arduino board = esp32-s3-devkitc-1-n16r8v board_build.filesystem = littlefs lib_extra_dirs = ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries build_unflags = -std=gnu++11 -fconcepts build_flags = -std=gnu++17 -fconcepts -DBOARD_HAS_PSRAM -mfix-esp32-psram-cache-issue monitor_speed = 115200 monitor_rts = 0 monitor_dtr = 0 monitor_filters = default time colorize esp32_exception_decoder

If you want, you can also copy the board definition file https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/blob/develop/boards/esp32-s3-devkitc-1.json and create a custom one in your own repo (if it differs much from the esp32-s3-devkitc-1).

On the "Platforms" tab of the quick access toolbar, I can click on "platforms" (again) and see that I have version 6.0.1 of the Espressif 32 platform instaled. If I look at the release info, it seems that support for IDF v5.0 was added in Espressif 32 version 6.0.0.

board: esp32-s3-devkitc-1 #https://registry.platformio.org/platforms/platformio/espressif32/boards

This is probably the simplest next step before fully transitioning to ESP-IDF and dumping PlatformIO. Here's the PlatformIO example repo that does just this. https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/tree/develop/examples/espidf-arduino-blink

Sounds like this might be a similar issue to this problem I ran into with the S3 and Platform.io?

esphome: name: myesp32c3 esp32: board: esp32-c3-devkitm-1 variant: esp32c3 framework: ### Arduino type: arduino version: dev platform_version: https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git#feature/arduino-upstream ### ESP-IDF # type: esp-idf ...

Yes this seemed to be it. I don't know what is the difference between "development platform" and "development framework" (IDF), but all I know is that the change that made thinfs slower happened in the former. And I know that because I reverted the version used inside Platform.io. Other than that, I have no idea what is happening in the background. I just use PlatformIO on VSC and have pretty basic programming skills.

Not sure how full featured it is. But a quick search shows someone writing an arduous compatibility layer for the ESP32. Might be helpful, but I haven’t tested it: https://github.com/Brawrdon/esp-homekit-arduino-sdk

I used this library here: https://github.com/Brawrdon/esp-homekit-arduino-sdk