We try to use common defines for I2C master code in our projects, so it’s easy to jump between different microcontrollers and processors. This is quite challenging with the ESP32, because its setup and then do as a single operation approach is very different to the raw operation by operation approach a microtroller will typically […]
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Setup bluetooth for your project
Launch menuconfig (see here for how to launch it) Component Config > Bluetooth Select Bluetooth as enabled. The options for Bluetooth will then be shown, setup as required.
Error functions
ESP_ERROR_CHECK() Use when calling many of the ESP32 API fucntions to carry out controlled error checking, e.g.
Running out of interrupts
Interrupt inputs are a limited resource on the ESP32, and initializing certain features requires interrupt inputs to be attached to the peripherals. Just like other resources (such as RAM), the program can run out of the interrupt inputs if it uses multiple features at once. The good news is that it is usually possible to […]
Programming & debugging issues
See here.
Compiler issues
See here.
Runtime errors
ESP_ERROR_CHECK failed, expression: esp_intr_alloc Example TERMINAL output: In this example, the installation of the TWAI driver failed because the system ran out of CPU interrupt inputs. This can happen when several drivers or subsystems are initialized. Something along the lines of this suggestion might help. See our page on this issue here. See the Espressif […]
REQUIRES list
General REQUIRES page see here. ESP-IDF specific REQUIRES list If you don’t have a REQUIRES list in CMakeLists.txt that is declaring dependencies on certain special components, you typically don’t have to add basic components as REQUIRES also, due to the implicit dependency behaviour of main component (see here). If you do have a REQUIRES section, you […]
FAT project settings
Configure project Menu > View > Command Palette > Type: “ESP-IDF: SDK Configuration editor” (or use CTRL+E then G)Wait for it to load Scroll down to the “FAT Filesystem support” section
USB Memory stick
See here.