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m5stack / Core2-for-AWS-IoT-Kit

Accompanying code for use with AWS IoT Kit content. Works with PlatformIO and ESP-IDF v4.2.
https://m5stack.com/collections/m5-core/products/m5stack-core2-esp32-iot-development-kit-for-aws-iot-edukit
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Windows installation requires pip #21

Closed scarolan closed 3 years ago

scarolan commented 3 years ago

pip should be bundled in the installer script that installs python.

Here is the fix, after I did this the ESP-IDF tools completed installing.

download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py C:\Python39\python.exe .\get-pip.py

and if the ESP-IDF tools is upstream, maybe just add a note in the docs for Windows users to install pip manually.

rashedtalukder commented 3 years ago

Pip is installed with the Python installer during ESP-IDF installer run and also with conda. Something is wrong on you particular machine or you bypassed those installations some how. This is abnormal.

scarolan commented 3 years ago

Sorry I didn't realize that you actually have to install two completely separate Python development environments. That's a pretty heavy lift just to program an IoT microcontroller. I've got miniconda installed now, closing this issue.

rashedtalukder commented 3 years ago

You don't need to. The problem is is that during testing we found so many issues (like the ones you've been having) with conflicts that it provided a significantly better experience to isolate using Conda. One of the big pitfalls really is that the Windows ESP-IDF installer forces a Python installation but also barks at miniconda. We would prefer to install miniconda first and rely solely on the virtual environment created, but had to switch due to https://github.com/m5stack/Core2-for-AWS-IoT-EduKit/issues/13. I will raise this issue with Espressif and see what they say.

The issues that arise with Python version conflicts is not unique to IoT development.