How to Flash WLED to ESP32 & ESP8266 + Troubleshooting Tips
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Hey everyone! Here is our How to Flash WLED to ESP32 & ESP 8266 complete guide to get you started on transforming your home office, gaming room, or really any spaces with awesome WiFi controlled LEDs. In this video we are covering the complete getting started experience - starting off with downloading WLED, flashing WLED to an ESP32 (which can be tricky) and flashing WLED to an ESP8266. We
0:00 - 1:04 - Intro
1:04 - 6:35 - Setup
6:35 - 10:00 - Troubleshooting
10:00 - 11:05 - esp8266 w/ esptool
11:05 - 13:15 - esp32 w/ esptool
13:15 - 16:10 - example w/ espflasher
16:10 - 17:00 - esphome overview
17:00 - 17:42 - Outro
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Your coverage of the esptool bit was amazing - thank you :)
Appreciate the feedback!
Nice video, appreciate you putting this together. Thank you Zach!
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Hi, thanks for the video. Exactly what i was looking for, cant be better.
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback!
Love the background music!
Thanks for video, didn't know how to flash ESP (i was thinking that this stuff is the same to Arduino but via espflasher) and after lots of mistakes i found your video and flashed it via esptool, thanks a lot
Glad it helped!
@@BlueBotTech Have another problem, i want to connect Hyperion to WLED, but i need ip of ESP32 that i don't know, i tried to get ip from serial port monitor in Arduino IDE, tried static ip but if i flash that, WLED goes to void, (in serial port monitor only symbols that normal people can't read, like that: ⸮P⸮V⸮⸮ET⸮Q⸮UU⸮T⸮⸮-⸮Q) how can i get ip of my ESP32?
Would have been nice if you had showed how to install or download the ESPTool. Doesn't seem to exist as a file.
Comprehensive and covers a lot. Just need a Mac version now! However, I did end up getting it to work on my Mac as it was pretty strait forward and the Python terminal commands were the same as on Windows.
Glad you got it working on your Mac and the vid was helpful!
Nice 👍👍
Looking forward to the troubleshooting video. Got some serious issues with my ESP32 chips going offline after a random time period within 24 hours
I’ll have to look into this more with the esp32. I have had some of the common issues with the d1 mini where memory fills up and it restarts. Once the restart is complete it appears back on the network though.
@@BlueBotTech I have tried several things too. All devices in my home have DHCP bound static IP addresses. Only my Esp32's go offline. Both the nodeMCU style and the D1 mini formfactor. After programming a static IP in the ESP they stay on longer but still go offline after a random amount of time
I have flashed the esp8266 dev board just as you have shown in the video (enormous thanks for that :)) but for some reason it still giving me the error message that "Serial port is not ready. Close any other application using it and try again." Can it be because I have a faulty wire or something ?? (I have no idea if the wire can transfer data or not....is flashing considered a form of data transfer though?? of is it just the port that's being flashed ??) Pls help me as Ive been on this for hours and havn't gotten anywhere :(:(
Thanks for the video :) Where did you buy your esp32 chip?
I got them from Amazon, here are the exact esp32’s I purchased. amzn.to/3z461AR (this is an affiliate link) if you want to find them without the affiliate link just search “keeyees esp32”
when running the command to flash my ESP32, I get esptool.py is not recognized.... I successfully installed Python (Windows10) - but you dont mention anything about esptool (install etc)?
@Blu Bot Tech on Min 5:05 you are activating some Scripts. The Scripts Folder is already in your WLED Folder you created just before in the Vid. Where do you get that Scripts from and what kind of Scripts are that?
I Try to set up a brand new ESP32 and I am doing it for the first time, but I am stuck on that point of your vid.
Thx :)
Zach, great video. When I plug in my D1 Mini, the light flashes, but does not stay lighted….any idea what’s going on?
Hey Derek, which method/tools are you using to flash your d1 mini. Also, what operating system are you flashing your device from?
@@BlueBotTech it was my usb to micro, don’t think it had data transfer capability. Got a new one and it flashed. Thanks for the reply.
will it work on any esp8266 or only the one you have
Hey, i just got my first ESP32 module ever. I plugged it in and it blinked red for 3 times, then the led turned off completely. It seems that your LED is light up in red the whole time before flashing. My board doesnt show up on my pc. not even as unknown device. Is my board broken? would be nice if you could help me :)
With the esp32, you usually have to hold the reset button while plugging it in so that you can write to it. Hope this helps!
Any idea why I don't get any color blends? I get solid red green blue only. No blending between colors and no white. If I set the color to white the led strips shuts off. I'm using ws8215 60 leds / meter strips
It turns out it was a power issue. Powering 5 meters of 8215 from my USB apparently does not give enough juice to run white. Once I added a power supply everything looks great.
You forgot to install esptool in the Py environment, otherwise thanks for the tutorial!
Kind of a biggie, renders the whole tutorial a bit useless :(
can someone adv how this is done pls...?
I get those same littlefs errors in espflasher, do i need to worry about them?
Did your nodemcu start broadcasting its access point/connect to your wifi?
Does flashing mean resetting? Its because my WLED-AP won't connect to any of my devices and the wled1234 doesnt work
This would take your nodemcu back to a refreshed state.
@@BlueBotTech or it does an "factory reset". great vid btw!
@@sebasdt2103 thanks! Glad you liked it!
ive been following step by step but when i go to flash the bootloader it tells me that esptool.py is not recognized as an internal command. what did i do wrong?
This could be from a number of things:
1) you're not including the .py extension
2) you do not have the python virtual environment activated
3) you are not in the directory that esptool is in.
I hope this helps!
it means you haven't install the tool. you could download esptool via the command line, run this command to install it: " pip install esptool "
@@BlueBotTech hi great vid bro, like him I'm new to this and have the same problem can you tell us how to do your number 1 and 2 to add extensions ect as im new and took me an hour to get python working with cmd lol many thx great vid just subbed 😀
@@sebasdt2103 just tried that pal it says pip install esptool is not recognised as an internal or external command operable program or batch file 🤔 any help brother appreciated 👍
@@ttvenom hey dude! I need a little time to look in it again
(wled) C:\Users\JR\Python\wled>'esptool.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
''esptool.py'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
What do I do now?
Did you download and place esptool in the wled folder?
@@BlueBotTech Yes I did. I ended up using their installer site. It flashes it for you
everythiong is done till 4.45. where is wled folder with scripts?
This should be located wherever you ran your python -m venv command. You don’t need to work out of a virtual environment however, and can simply work out of any directory you choose.
you cut down the Python part, what you tipe in
Voice audio is too quiet and you need a pop filter.
Thanks for the feedback, we are still trying to dial everything in!
The slower you talk the more your voice goes low and vibrates😂
This would be great without that annoying background music, please lose it
Thanks for the feedback!