Issue with flashing - any help please.

[jackkitley]

Describe the bug Im getting blocked on flashing. Im not sure what to do now.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Do this
2. Do that
3. Now this happens

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

Additional context Trying to flash using a USB - TTL adapter

[mmakaay]

Normally, issues like this come down to setting up the connections correctly

• RX, TX to the correct pins (try to swap them if not sure)
• GND and GPIO0 must be connected when powering up the lamp, to put it into flash mode

However, in this case I do some boot logs and some chip info, suggesting that there is communication going on between the computer and the ESP32. Do you have an option to test the flashing on a windows computer instead? I've seen some people struggle with issues like this when on a mac, and the USB device name looks a bit Mac-y to me. (side note: I am on a macbook myself, and can flash, so it's not a golden rule that this wouldn't work)

Further than this, I have currently no bright ideas about what could be going on here.

[jackkitley]

@mmakaay thanks for the reply. i should have updated this.

It was my USB to TTL. I was using a 2303 and was horrid. TX was 1.8V.

Bought a new one and works great! Lamp working

[mmakaay]

Horrid is bad 😄 Thanks for the update!