Comments on: VS Code and pioarduino IDE: Programming the ESP32 (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

By: JB

JB — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:30:21 +0000

Hi Sara
You wrote this in a previous reply here on the site.
If you add this line in your PlatformIO projects, on the plaformio.ini file, it will use core 2, and you can still use older methods.
platform = espressif32@3.5.0

because of that I found this page.
https://gist.github.com/maxpromer/2e88c13ab8692263c88870ca8636cf0c
There I found that if I use
platform = espressif32@6.9.0
which is equivalent to arduino core 2.0.17
then I could program Esp32 s2, esp32s3 and Esp32 c6
under PioArduino
so thank you Sara

By: David Sims

David Sims — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:28:08 +0000

In reply to Sara Santos.

Hi Sara,
Yes it is now different, it is now as I described in my earlier post.
I think if you now reload your pioarduino extension you’ll see what I mean. As I say, it is a fairly minor, but nevertheless confusing detail to those following the tutorial.
Regards,
David

By: JB

JB — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:42:34 +0000

In reply to Sara Santos.

Hi Sara don’t bother and thank you for your reply
I realized that it is the usual thing with IDE’s that when there are major updates that it takes some time before the different chips are properly supported and the various bugs are fixed. It always takes some time before Esp32 s2, Esp32 s3 and Esp32 c6 are properly supported.
It is better with Esp32 c3.

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:23:43 +0000

In reply to JB.

Hi.
What is exactly the error that you’re getting?

Regards,
Sara

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:21:03 +0000

In reply to David Sims.

Hi.
I understand your point.

However, the only thing that changes is the icon at the left sidebar.
All other things keep saying “PlaformIO” and the icon on the Home is also the PlaformIO icon.
At least this was like this when I created this tutorial.

Does it show something different now?

Regards,
Sara

By: JB

JB — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:43:57 +0000

In reply to JB. The problem doesn't seem to be the WiFi, sorry, my mistake.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:18:35 +0000

In reply to JB.

I forgot to mention that I use the
mathieucarbou/ESPAsyncWebServer and
mathieucarbou/AsyncTCP libraries

By: JB

JB — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:13:53 +0000

In reply to JB.

Well never mind.
With esp32 s2 and esp32 s3 chips I have to go back
to espressif 2.17 in Arduino IDE before WiFi works again.

By: David Sims

David Sims — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:03:28 +0000

A very good tutorial, thanks. But it does need updating. The pioardunio Home screen needs to show the new pioarduino icon and the “Welcome to pioardunio” heading rather than “Welcome to PlatformIO”. I know this is fairly minor, but to anyone just starting to try this IDE, it looks like they’ve done something wrong early on. E.g. They might ask themselves, “should I have loaded PlatformIO as well as pioardunio?”

By: JB

JB — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:56:52 +0000

hi
Is anyone else having problems with WiFi running Pioarduino.
I’m running some code where I use WiFi on an Esp32 c3 module.
Compiling the code in Arduino IDE Espressif core 3.2 Wifi works fine.
Compiling the exact same code running Pioarduino WiFi doesn’t work.
Does anyone have any idea why it doesn’t work?