Some pins are in HIGH mode after reboot

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ParaPashka
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Some pins are in HIGH mode after reboot

Post by ParaPashka » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:28 am

I have a ESP32 WROOM-32 DEVKIT V1 board. No software installed, just flashed with micropython (esp32spiram-idf4-20210202-v1.14).
I have measured the voltage on the pins and foud that some pins are ON.
They are: D14, TX0, RX0, D5, RX2, D15
When I flashed the board with another vertion of micropython (esp32-idf4-20210202-v1.14)
pin RX2 became OFF.
Why so?
Do I need to swich them off using

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Pin(14, Pin.OUT).off()

for example, in boot.py, if i need them in LOW state after reboot?

While writing this post, i have been measuring the voltage many times, and I noticed, that mostly i get 0-0.1v on the OFF pins, but sometimes all pins of one side from D27 to VP (d27 d26 d25 d33 d32 d35 d34 VN VP) show about 1v or 0,8v.
What's that?

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Re: Some pins are in HIGH mode after reboot

Post by Roberthh » Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:28 am

but sometimes all pins of one side from D27 to VP (d27 d26 d25 d33 d32 d35 d34 VN VP) show about 1v or 0,8v.
What's that?
Just floating pins in input mode.

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Re: Some pins are in HIGH mode after reboot

Post by pythoncoder » Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:11 am

Yes. In general microcontrollers boot up with pins floating: any other option would be potentially unsafe to connected peripherals. If you want a pin to start at a defined level, an external resistor is the solution.
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