Are there some ESP32 variants I should avoid for lack of support? (Newbie)

ESPHome
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I am just getting into HA and working with ESP boards and it isn’t immediately obvious how much support there is for the different variants (S3,S2,C3 etc).

I bring this up because the first device I tried to connect was an Adafruit ESP32-S2 Metro board and it wasn’t nearly as straightforward of an experience as I have seen in most tutorials for other ESP boards, in fact, I never got it sorted out to work.

Is this something I should be particularly sensitive to if I am not an expert at troubleshooting?

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I’m surprised it did not work.
I have not yet found one that does not work.
But I have always bought the “standard” shaped devices.

What does not work? Have you tried pulling GPIO0 to ground while connecting?

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What board definition did you use in ESPHome?

Showing the config you tried to use will help diagnose the issue. Please correctly format it for the forum.

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Yes some of the newer boards are awkward to get working and/or require different libraries to work properly.

Straight esp32 is fine, once they start adding numbers/letters like s2, c3 etc it gets weird. As it says in the docs

Support for the ESP32-S2 and ESP32-C3 is currently in development.

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Do you think they eventually get full support in the near future or is this more likely one of those situations where the variants stay “in development” indefinitely?

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I don’t know, but esphome is based on platformio and

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