Ok, many thanks for clarification. So assuming a fix is found a later version may not have this issue (I’m currently on 4.01)
Finally managed to get some good wifi and downloaded the C++ stuff… all 3.3gb of it to be able to upload a few kb to the esp…
I was following the instructions ESP32_WiFi_V4.x/wired-ethernet.md at master · OpenEVSE/ESP32_WiFi_V4.x · GitHub
but it gets confusing to me when it refers to rev e, f, g… what rev have I got, how do I tell? equally confusing is the instruction to look for esp32-gateway-e.bin… esp32gateway.zip sure… but in it is firmware.bin
I went with it and managed to update to 4.10
All seems to be working. have I done it right? text at command prompt below
esptool.py v3.1
Found 2 serial ports
Serial port COM8
Connecting…
Detecting chip type… ESP32
Chip is ESP32-D0WD-V3 (revision 3)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: c4:dd:57:aa:89:e8
Uploading stub…
Running stub…
Stub running…
Configuring flash size…
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Flash will be erased from 0x00010000 to 0x00193fff…
Compressed 1587280 bytes to 831853…
Wrote 1587280 bytes (831853 compressed) at 0x00010000 in 73.7 seconds (effective 172.2 kbit/s)…
Hash of data verified.
Leaving…
Hard resetting via RTS pin…
It will be printed on the Hardware module. If you have ordered from the openenergymonitor store, you will have one of the latest versions.
That output looks correct. Nice work 