ESP32 board going often unavailable

[athua (Gus)]

@Krieger2690

The board is powered via its usb-c port.

Read through the following thread and see if your ESP32 is the same as these:

Something is very wrong with the WiFi on the ESP32 boards I ordered from AliExpress. Is there any way to salvage these and fix the WiFi?

I ordered some of these cheap ESP32 development boards to run ESPresense: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004578025401.html (I ordered the CH340 TYPE-C version.) Unfortunately it looks like these are some poorly designed clones, and the WiFi performance is horrible. They’re barely able to get -84 dBm, compared to -50 dBm for some other ESP32 boards from a different vendor. I’m running the same firmware on some other ESP32 boards that were a bit more expensive, and they have no problems at …