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davef wrote: ↑

Sun May 22, 2022 8:47 pm

They seem to use the "boot" button in their process whereas on my system I use the EN button.

I've never had to use one of those buttons...

I tried it and it doesn't make any difference.

If you really want to get to the bottom of this problem ... is there a uPycraft forum? When I was looking around randomnerdtutorials I found a tutorial: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/install-upycraft-ide-linux-ubuntu-instructions/ (be careful as it only works with 16.04 unless you compile yoursel...

OK, on your boot.py. I made one of these recently: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-car-robot-web-server/ with my grandson. Cool, that was my first system for this little car. But my teacher wished there was communication between 2 Esp32. It was allowed to do this communication wired, but ...

Apparently I only have to burn the firmware when I plug it in the computer.
It does al work fine as long I don't plug it in.
So guess it's not a big deal then

In case you were wondering what I'm making:
It's a remote control car. Why Wifi, just because it can

I would not run a program like that in boot.py. Leave boot.py with nothing in it. In main.py import my_program in my_program.py put your wanted program. Putting that code in boot.py and something goes wrong I am pretty certain that you will not be told what happened. This boot works very good, it t...

I would not run a program like that in boot.py. Leave boot.py with nothing in it. In main.py import my_program in my_program.py put your wanted program. Putting that code in boot.py and something goes wrong I am pretty certain that you will not be told what happened. Tried it, doesn't make a differ...

I would not run a program like that in boot.py. Leave boot.py with nothing in it. In main.py import my_program in my_program.py put your wanted program. Putting that code in boot.py and something goes wrong I am pretty certain that you will not be told what happened. Tried it, doesn't make a differ...

It runs ok when start it without the EspNow. Both firmware's (the standard and the Generic for the EspNow) By "without the ESPNow" do you mean when not doing from esp import espnow No, I mean loading MyProgram.py where I use code for EspNow. When I load it fresh to the board and start the script, i...

davef wrote: ↑

Thu May 19, 2022 10:46 am

Are you hitting the EN button after you have downloaded the files and removed the USB connection?

When it runs, I can pull the USB out and it keeps running (on battery power), as long I don't reboot or reset.
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