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By KMHughes
#194321
Hi folks,

I have been attempting to program an ESP32. Given the state of the Arduino-like libraries, I downloaded the 2.0 final version of the ESP-IDF onto an Ubuntu 16.04 box.

I have tried the HTTP request and the mDNS examples. Neither one connects to WIFI reliably.

I try the command

make flash monitor

If I do get a connection, it is after an initial flashing. However, if I hit the reset button on the ESP, or perhaps try reflashing, it will often not connect to WIFI. I have also seen a lot of garbled output from the examples when they do work, some of the text I expect to see and then something that looks like some non-ASCII data was part of the print attempt.

Anyone else run into these problems?

Thanks!
-Keith