ESP32 S2 WROOM - not able to integrate

[homonto]

The problem

so I am happy user of ESPHome with some ESP32S boards. Recently I bought ESP32-S2-WROOM and I am completely not able to integrate this board with ESPHome. Is it because S2 is not supported or what? In Arduino or other platforms there is a big difference between ESP32 and S2 but as per ESPHome: "All ESP32-based devices are supported by ESPHome. Simply select ESP32 when the ESPHome wizard asks you ..." - but when I start the wizard it says: "Unable to identify the connected device (12882)." When I skip wizard and try to install it says: "installation failed". I am connecting using usb-c cable from my macbook to the board. Arduino has no issues - any sketch done with Arduino or even esptool works but ESPHome apparently not. I am a big fan of ESPHome for my HA but... Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Which version of ESPHome has the issue?

Current version: 2021.8.0

What type of installation are you using?

Home Assistant Add-on

Which version of Home Assistant has the issue?

core-2021.8.8

What platform are you using?

ESP32

Board

ESP32-S2-WROOM

Component causing the issue

integration does not work

Example YAML snippet

esphome:
  name: test
  platform: ESP32
  board: esp32dev
  arduino_version: latest

# Enable logging
logger:
  level: DEBUG
# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:
  password: "asdfasdfas"

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password
  fast_connect: True
  manual_ip:
    static_ip: 192.168.1.184
    gateway: 192.168.1.1
    subnet: 255.255.255.0

  # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
  ap:
    ssid: "test Fallback Hotspot"
    password: !secret esp_fallback_wifi_password

captive_portal:

sensor:
  - platform: wifi_signal
    update_interval: 5s
    id: test_wifi
    name: "test_wifi"

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

I am not at the log level as it does not integrate even
During installation it shows:

"installation failed" and 2 eyes ;-(

Additional information

No response

[oxan]

That text on the website is outdated, there's no official support for the S2 (and C3) yet. However, you can try setting arduino_version to dev, it might work (but be warned that that's using an dev version of Arduino, so it might break at any time).

[homonto]

thank you for your answer I am using Arduino IDE and this ESP32-S2 works perfectly OK there but ESPHome is... much easier for IoT than Arduino

I tried but unsuccessful - it does not install - same like before

[oxan]

Well, it might work, but there's no stable release of the Arduino framework for the S2 yet.

If it doesn't work, there might be a real issue, or you might need to set the correct board (esp32dev is by default not an S2 board). Try setting board_build.mcu and board_build.variant to esp32s2 using platformio_options.

[homonto]

yeap, but Arduino itself has completely NO ISSUE with S2 and in Arduino I set simply "ESP32S2 DEV MODULE" - which one to put into ESPHome in the field "board" ?

[oxan]

See the documentation for boards option, you need to put a PlatformIO board identifier there.

[homonto]

thank you but since I am not an expert it does not help me at all ;-(

[oxan]

I missed that you included the board you're using in the initial issue, it seems the ESP32-S2-WROOM isn't supported by PlatformIO yet, so it can't be used with ESPHome.

I'd suggest to wait until these chips are officially supported.

[homonto]

thank you, considering that S2 is almost 2y old... ;-) OK, I am not complaining - just moving back to Arduino IDE then. Pity, because what in Arduino takes hundreds of lines, is done in 20 lines in ESPHome for my non-S2 ESP32 boards ;-( but ok, life

[misery]

This works for my S2. You can try that, too.

esp32:
  board: esp32-s2-kaluga-1

esphome:
  platformio_options:
    platform_packages:
      - framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32.git#2.0.0
    platform:
      - https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git#feature/arduino-upstream

[teamsuperpanda]

This works for my S2. You can try that, too.

esp32:
  board: esp32-s2-kaluga-1

esphome:
  platformio_options:
    platform_packages:
      - framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32.git#2.0.0
    platform:
      - https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git#feature/arduino-upstream

Using that I got this error. Do you know what changes I would need to make?

src/esphome/components/esp32_ble_tracker/queue.h:11:10: fatal error: esp_gap_ble_api.h: No such file or directory

*************************************************************************
* Looking for esp_gap_ble_api.h dependency? Check our library registry!
*
* CLI  > platformio lib search "header:esp_gap_ble_api.h"
* Web  > https://platformio.org/lib/search?query=header:esp_gap_ble_api.h
*
*************************************************************************

[jwillikers]

I have a working example using the ESP-IDF framework instead of the Arduino framework for the ESP32-S2 here: https://github.com/jwillikers/esphome-funhouse. A lot of functionality is missing and it won't build on aarch64 Linux yet, but it works.

[homonto]

ESP32-S2 is fully functional in Arduino both old 1.x and new 2.x but I wanted ESPHome

[jwillikers]

ESP32-S2 is fully functional in Arduino both old 1.x and new 2.x but I wanted ESPHome

It's an ESPHome project.