Getting Started with the ESP32 Development Board

Getting Started with the ESP32 Development Board | Programming an ESP32 in C/C++

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In this video, we explore how to setup the Espressif IOT Development Framework, or IDF, and use it to write C code to blink an LED on the board. We discuss FreeRTOS, the operating system being ran on the ESP32, and how to write code that uses the RTOS and ESP32 API's to get GPIO working. We also discuss logging data to the serial bus, and using the monitor to view the serial output.
The ESP32 IDF uses FreeRTOS, an open source real time operating system that is used on smaller embedded boards. FreeRTOS allows you to make tasks for different features on your board. Pairing this with the IDF allows you to write powerful Wifi programs to the ESP32.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:16 Getting Started
2:18 Using IDF
2:51 A New Project
3:47 Building a Blank Project
4:50 Writing ESP32 FreeRTOS Code
7:18 Flashing the ESP32
8:16 A Bug You Say???
9:50 GPIO Output
13:25 A Bug, REDUX?
15:15 Outro
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@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

How has your experience been with the ESP32 IDF? Let me know!

@colanuss4985 2 жыл бұрын

Not so well when trying to split the program into multiple components and driver .c files.. makefile compilation is a mess

@larrybud 2 жыл бұрын

@@colanuss4985 Use a proper IDE, like VSCode.

@svenprigann2631 2 жыл бұрын

Never saw somebody actually using idf. Seems like the esp32 is targeted to the maker scene. That's why nobody cares about a proper build toolchain. For me personally, I just looking into wifi and stuff via microphython for testing a small webserver. The ESP boards got far to less pins and peripherals to be used in industry (my opinion) No external bus controller, no DSi/LCD controller/no sophisticated timer peripheral and such Far, far to less communication peripherals. What's your opinion?

@mayursj3175 11 ай бұрын

How to solve this error ERROR: MSys/Mingw is not supported. Please follow the getting started guide of the documentation to set up a supported environment. I am trying to run this command in Git Bash using Windows I am struct can somebody help me

@mayursj3175 10 ай бұрын

I was able to resolve that error by using .bat files instead of .sh file in Command prompt for Windows if you want to program using windows use .bat files

@toplist2613 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you showing the errors and how you work through them. I feel like that’s a important piece that most people cut out.

@oshosanyamichael9589 11 ай бұрын

Very important piece. Some others just produce flawless code on first try.

@mt-qc2qh Жыл бұрын

Great lesson on the IDF. Personally, I use many different modules, including the whole family of esp's, nrf and avr processors, so I enjoy the consistency of using the Arduino IDE. This IDE is simple and fast enough for switching mindsets on the various modules. With this I've programmed hundreds of IOT projects over the years and enjoy any instruction on alternate environments. Your videos are some of the best. Thank you.

@DonQuichotteLiberia 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Your tutorials are very concise and the explanations are clear and straightforward. And i3wm is beautiful!

@mozartantonio1919 2 ай бұрын

SUUUUPER good video for real. It has everithing right. Good audio and video, the image of the board being plugged and pushing the reset button. Congrats!

@aissamma3623 6 ай бұрын

awesome tutorial, especially the walkthrough of solving errors, thank you so much

@reezuleanu1676 3 ай бұрын

You have no idea how hard it is to find a guide on how to flash your program without using an IDE. Thank you my friend

@liquid2499 3 жыл бұрын

Neat. I’d been meaning to check out ESP-IDF. Thanks. Awesome video as always.

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

@denbeibaron7797 2 жыл бұрын

I subscribed!!! This has saved me a ton of time reading those ebooks. Super awesome content.

@LowLevelLearning 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@MpSniperM1911 3 ай бұрын

Now I understand why this tutorial was so useful and on point, LowLevelLearning did it! I just started watching the first video that popped up without realizing and good for me I will get everything running like it should

@federicojoaquincoronati8353 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, this is very helpful. Getting started in this projects it's hard at first

@prashkd7684 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Waiting for part 2

@seanburnett7760 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Thanks!

@daniruiz2572 3 жыл бұрын

Just what I was looking for. incredibly well explained video. My congratulations

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@daniruiz2572 3 жыл бұрын

@@LowLevelLearning waiting for another new video. I encourage you to do more. Thank you so much

@esp32 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, great name of channel and great teacher

@thisisreallyme3130 7 ай бұрын

Just learning ESP32 IDF now after YEARS of Arduino and CircuitPython. I love this chip... so powerful and so inexpensive... it's got everything for less cost than the batteries you might purchase for it! :-D TY for this series of videos! I'm also planning to take your Udemy course. Please consider grouping some of your ESP32 videos into a Playlist, but I was able to find everything under the Videos tab. Cheers.

@alol-alol 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video! The ESP32’s dev environment looks like it avoids a lot of headaches and boilerplate in getting things set up. Looking forward to other videos in the series!

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Its definitely more complicated than the Pi Pico or Arduino, but its also way more power.

@Grivious20 3 жыл бұрын

Esp32 provides us with 2 cores which is great but in the mean time, it has relatively high latency due to the external flash that is on the board. It's great platform from IOT perspective, but not the fast one as in compare with stm32 family ucs

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

@@Grivious20 thats a great point. maybe I'll do a speed test some day between the ESP32 and the STM family.

@Grivious20 3 жыл бұрын

@@LowLevelLearning that would be awesome !

@leahlee8535 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Thank you Thank youuuuuuuu This was a good tutorial. Loved seeing the mistakes so that I can fix my own!!

@hewiweng99 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You helped me a lot!

@lunarlabour7012 2 жыл бұрын

Very high quality content

@victormikecharlie1596 2 жыл бұрын

We need more videos about it, low level idf programming esp32 please Thank you for your great work

@rmwright70 2 жыл бұрын

Good Video. Learned a few things.

@mrkewi1 6 ай бұрын

love your channel. thanks!

@ostanin_vadym 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the content

@alexxx4233 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial !!!!

@Tutorius 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial! I have done some programming for the last weeks using the Arduino-IDE and my Chinese ESP-WROOM-Board. Everything worked well, but i wanted to try to program directly in IDF cause i get an Audio-ESP in some days, and want to try to get this running as a synthesizer. So i startet to get the VSCode to run with IDF, and it did not work. I know VS-Code, i use it to create the firmware for my 3D-printer, and the Porject-management is totaly crap. So your tutorial to get the IDF running on my arch-linux worked very well. I do videos about 3D-printing and desigent, and i often also do trying, create errors and talk these errors to the viewers. Many like it to see what the process of design is, but some "need" videos that are without any errors, look like all is nice and easy.

@jorgeluis4389 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. The errors make it real!

@jamixxbot1724 Жыл бұрын

A really good tutorial 🔥

@LowLevelLearning Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🔥

@veli-pekkaporrassalmi3135 3 жыл бұрын

I've been looking forward to start learning the ESP-IDF instead of using the Arduino integration (for fun and learning purposes). However I've always postponed that since I'm way too used to the Arduino platform. Currently I'm working with a project based on ESP32 and this morning I decided that I'm gonna learn the ESP-IDF and use that for this project. I was just casually scrolling on KZfaq and happened to notice your new video about... well.. getting started with the ESP32 IDF! Haha, what are the odds of that! Anyway, great video! This did get me started.

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very happy to hear this was useful!

@suhaschitra3965 2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@yassinezouari9338 Жыл бұрын

what is you think about the experience worth the time?

@barchilsaid3001 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. :)

@ironman5034 2 жыл бұрын

Do more with the esp32 it's pretty powerful

@gerdsfargen6687 Жыл бұрын

I find Eclipse IDF is just fine for building and configuring the project, even when splitting out to separate header files and such. FreeRTOS is the way to go.

@TOMTOM-nh3nl 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You

@danielgrafflin9689 5 ай бұрын

Great tutorial for the nubie. What to do when things go wrong and fixing errors is all too important.

@microcontrolprojects 2 жыл бұрын

King, you know this business. Everyone can know but cannot teach, you teach.

@gerdsfargen6687 Жыл бұрын

yes pretty much like all the malakes that want to correct this dude but wont offer up their own videos. That much is true,

@Mohamed-kr8jt Жыл бұрын

nice video, it was very useful can you explain how to control GPIO using register addresses I have try to look in the datasheet but I can't understand anything

@scott6932 Жыл бұрын

The new Tamgotchi Uni uses a ESP32-S3-WROOM-1! kinda cool!

@MakeTeachRepeat 2 жыл бұрын

Your voice is a lot like Adafruits - if you boost mid-frequencies in audio - very, very nice presentation style and voice. Good content - keep it up! I'm learning a lot.

@LowLevelLearning 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@donnellboles1149 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, can you program the ESP32 to read data from 4 accelerometers?

@divencia Жыл бұрын

What compiler do you use for programming?

@norlesh 2 ай бұрын

I tuned in on this clip explicitly because of the C++ in the title; alas its the same old embedded C.

@getyourphils3334 2 жыл бұрын

Any chance you're working on the wifi tutorial you mentioned? Love the videos.

@LowLevelLearning 2 жыл бұрын

Not yet!

@bennguyen1313 Жыл бұрын

At the 8m mark, why do you press the boot button after it was programmed (idf py flash )? You mention that you are holding the boot button for it to catch after using idf py monitor... then the monitor shows waiting for download. After the flashing step, could you have just hit the reset button in order to run the program? And if you have your ESP-32 connected to a JTAG debugger.. does that flash the board every time you debug, or does it download it (to RAM) without flashing?

@dominikz5776 11 ай бұрын

Do u use Visual Studio and integrate the ESP IDF extension or what kind of IDE is this?

@volkinaxe Күн бұрын

some thing that is not sed what are you using to program into is it arduino ide ? or just in the pc windows cmd?

@peterpiper8806 Жыл бұрын

I'm a little slow here, kindly help, which command line an I copying the link into? Or rather what ide is being used?

@JFM1170 8 ай бұрын

Worked good up to build at about 4:11 then the CMake error

@JoaoVictor-xi7nh 4 ай бұрын

Were you able to solve it?

@JFM1170 4 ай бұрын

@@JoaoVictor-xi7nhIt's been a while but no I never got it to work. The ESP32 just sits I have never been able to program it. I have tried in Linux and Windows with the Arduino software never been able to write to the device.

@kavorka8855 Жыл бұрын

An STM32 blue or black board with a bluetooth/wife module may be better since you could use the sm32's powerful IDE.

@rul1175 9 ай бұрын

What is the editor you are using in the video????

@sahar87918 2 жыл бұрын

I am using esp32-CAM and when I get to the waiting to the download part where i'm supposed to hit the reset button (min 8:15 ) I keep getting the same message (waiting to download..) , anyone has an idea?

@lm2668 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do more arm assembly video pls?

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

What topic specifically are you interested in?

@Eiarlk 2 ай бұрын

What of i need to use another operating system apart from C and C++

@jeffreydijkstra3391 2 жыл бұрын

is there a windows version? because i cant execute the commands

@sklearn9391 2 жыл бұрын

Sir I have installed the framework but got the following error after running command idf.py build gen_crt_bundle.py: Invalid certificate in /home/santa/esp-idf/components/mbedtls/esp_crt_bundle/cacrt_all.pem Invalid certificate

@Numb3r1 3 жыл бұрын

Are you going to do more videos on esp-idf in the future?

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

Sure will!

@Numb3r1 3 жыл бұрын

@@LowLevelLearning Awesome! Looking forward to it.

@inderjitsaini9303 6 күн бұрын

Just curious to know, Would this count as Embedded C? As, we are not using let’s say Arduino IDE to write code for this? Also, Is it possible to do bare metal programming on ESP32 without using the ESP-IDF toolchain?

@BabyZoomer278 4 ай бұрын

Am I missing something? There doesn't seem to be any discussion of programming the ESP32 with C++, even though the title suggests this.

@shivanshuraj7175 8 ай бұрын

i get error failled to determine sizeof(time_t)

@ashwini5775 3 жыл бұрын

It's showing me cmake err, can you help me out with this

@roughedge-machineworks 2 жыл бұрын

Rust on ESP32?? :)

@wenbiaozhao4634 2 жыл бұрын

I have finish till the building ,but when i flash, system told me a fatal error occurred: MD5 of file doesn't match data in flash, but this board i flash i arduino IDE no any problem.file md5 and flash md5 not equal

@wenbiaozhao4634 2 жыл бұрын

I just follow you step by step, but who can tell me what's wrong with me,thanks

@tinayoga8844 3 жыл бұрын

Do these instructions work for Windows?

@LowLevelLearning 3 жыл бұрын

Assuming you have cmake installed on Windows I think the build commands should be largely the same. The IDF commands should be exactly the same too.

@vebbis5961 Жыл бұрын

Awesome. This was way better than using the shitty vscode extension

@ofirgaash Жыл бұрын

0:30 where is my command line? CMD?

@user-qi6jl5ox1h 11 ай бұрын

@dominikz5776 11 ай бұрын

Is this the git shell?

@imim3772 2 жыл бұрын

I've been using Arduino ide, looks the same

@climbeverest 9 ай бұрын

Wait a second, did that board have rtos already running or you compiled rtos and your program? You should explain that

@AdityaSharma-co6st 7 ай бұрын

The whole kernel will be built along with the application. So the whole RTOS was compiled (everytime).

@rahim9568 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, but this is a hard task, arduion is one hander time better faster and easier. I use it only for wifi with its default factory software and communicate with it via UART.

@AlessioSangalli 2 жыл бұрын

Wow 16MB/s download, what kind of Internet do You have? I'm lucky if I get 3MB/s

@ORIofficialchannel Жыл бұрын

windows version?

@cadsonmikael9119 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial. However from my point of view the Arduino setup is 10 times faster and easier to use. Especially if you try to use and edit the IDF samples with WiFi or BLE. It is just not worth the hassle. The code is just all over. For simple things though, where the wireless stacks are not used, it is really powerful and one get full controll over i/o:s and can speed up the process alot, compared to all the slow arduino layers of mambo. However, that really is not really the purpose with this module.

@serggorod1423 Жыл бұрын

7:01 настройкалогеров. How to fix.

@drjoriv 2 жыл бұрын

I guess he forgot to release part 2 haha

@Dennis12869 2 ай бұрын

Tried to install it on Windows. No fun at all...

@MrPeloseco Жыл бұрын

I bet when nobody sees you, you still use Arduino IDE 😜

@dwhughes1975 Жыл бұрын

That was a fairly good instruction, but I have a critique. Personally my learning style is to follow these tutorials by pausing every few seconds and following everything that's going on, then jumping around and playing a bit with what the instructor's showing me, then resuming the video. That is NOT easy when you, the teacher, are doing things like entering a broken #include and then only correcting it much later in the video. Okay, I learned something by going and solving the problem myself and then continuing, but that's fighting the tutorial rather than following it. Troubleshooting is a necessary skill but this isn't a troubleshooting tutorial, it's a getting-started and GPIO tutorial, and I think you should be providing students with reliable information in a progressive and incremental way, rather then introducing false facts and then backtracking all over the place to undo them.