vscode-esp-idf-extension VS arduino-esp32

ESP-IDF devcontainer + vscode and the ESP-IDF plugin? Maybe it's worth me seeing if work will let me publish our docs around it, but it was pretty much as simple as following the ESP-IDF plugin's own documentation:

https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/m...

See this: https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/master/docs/C_CPP_CONFIGURATION.md

your c/cpp extention is not configured properly, there is even explanation how to do it in extension docs https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/master/docs/C_CPP_CONFIGURATION.md

I recommend getting yourself an ESP32 devkit (either ESP32-DevKitC or ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 variants), grab https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf SDK, and trying out both WiFi and BSD Sockets usage examples using VSCode + Espressif IDF or PlatformIO plugin. Hopefully you already have an existing WiFi network at home to use it with. Avoid Arduino, MicroPython, and such dumbed-down framework anything and stick with just using ESP-IDF provided APIs directly.

good docu/tutorial scroll down to readme here: https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension

I did a fresh install of ubuntu, then followed the setup guide at: https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/master/docs/tutorial/install.md

Not sure what tutorial you are following but I used this one on github (https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/blob/master/docs/tutorial/install.md) and didn’t have any issues, I appreciate that doesn’t help you if it’s the one you’re following.

Install VS Code ESP-IDF Extension GitHub Page with documentation 10 minute YouTube Video Introduction by Espressif

You could just buy ready-made ESP32 boards with an OV2640 camera built-in, then customize the example sketch from https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/ESP32/examples/Camera/CameraWebServer to your liking.

Are you perhaps this poster? https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/5250 - asking that poster for the list I just asked for went nowhere and it was auto-closed.

/* * Based on the following examples: * WiFi > WiFiMulti: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/WiFiMulti/WiFiMulti.ino * WiFi > WiFiScan: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/WiFiScan/WiFiScan.ino * Complete project details at our blog: https://RandomNerdTutorials.com/ * */ #include #include WiFiMulti wifiMulti; // WiFi connect timeout per AP. Increase when connecting takes longer. const uint32_t connectTimeoutMs = 10000; void setup(){ Serial.begin(115200); delay(10); WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); // Add list of wifi networks wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_1", "your_password_for_AP_1"); wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_2", "your_password_for_AP_2"); wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_3", "your_password_for_AP_3"); // WiFi.scanNetworks will return the number of networks found int n = WiFi.scanNetworks(); Serial.println("scan done"); if (n == 0) { Serial.println("no networks found"); } else { Serial.print(n); Serial.println(" networks found"); for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { // Print SSID and RSSI for each network found Serial.print(i + 1); Serial.print(": "); Serial.print(WiFi.SSID(i)); Serial.print(" ("); Serial.print(WiFi.RSSI(i)); Serial.print(")"); Serial.println((WiFi.encryptionType(i) == WIFI_AUTH_OPEN)?" ":"*"); delay(10); } } // Connect to Wi-Fi using wifiMulti (connects to the SSID with strongest connection) Serial.println("Connecting Wifi..."); if(wifiMulti.run() == WL_CONNECTED) { Serial.println(""); Serial.println("WiFi connected"); Serial.println("IP address: "); Serial.println(WiFi.localIP()); } } void loop(){ //if the connection to the stongest hotstop is lost, it will connect to the next network on the list if (wifiMulti.run(connectTimeoutMs) == WL_CONNECTED) { Serial.print("WiFi connected: "); Serial.print(WiFi.SSID()); Serial.print(" "); Serial.println(WiFi.RSSI()); } else { Serial.println("WiFi not connected!"); } delay(1000); }

I have 2 ESP32-S2-Saolo-1 's on hand. I am trying to do the example Wifi FTM code that can be found at the following repo: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/FTM

That has not been my experience at all as a user. ESPHome is even easier than Arduino and I haven’t touched firmware code in years.

The price makes a huge difference when you have dozens of them operating which is trivial with a decent hydroponics and smarthome setup. I also have a dozen boards just sitting idle ready to be called up to replace a failed one or use for a new project because they’re so cheap.

Not to mention the Arduino core is supported officially by ESP32: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32

Who actually uses Arduino in production? Everyone just uses modules (for ESP32) or rolls their own using the Arduino board as a reference.

They've done a good job of hiding the RTOS from you and making most sketches run fine without porting, but you're still running as a task under the RTOS, yielding between loop() calls[1]. This leads to mysterious timing issues if you aren't aware of it[2]

It doesn't appear that the Arduino core for the Renesas chip is using the RTOS, at least by default -- its main loop is literally doing while (1) { loop(); }, similar to how the AVR core works. [3, 4]

  1. https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/72c41d09538663ebef80d29eb986cd5bc3395c2d/cores/esp32/main.cpp#L45

https://github.com/lewisxhe/esp32-camera-series/issues/11 may interest you - you need all the files in the same dir, not just the .ino by itself

I copied all the libraries from here: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries