ESP32 in Raspberry Pi 3B+

ESPHome
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I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with HA 2023.12.4. I try to connect a D1 mini ESP32 but the .bin file is not generated. Apparently, it’s a bug due to lack of RAM. There are no more entries in ESPHome because I have removed them. Memory gives me
total used free shared buff/cache avalaible
mem: 908.9M 611.2M 35.6M 44.0k 262.1M 235.6M
swap: 330.1M 208.4M 91.7M

and log is

Link .pioenvs/garage-light/firmware.elf

collect2: Fatal Error: LD Terminated with Signal 9 [Dead]

Build completed.

[.pioenvs/garage-light/firmware.elf] Mistake 1

Is my hardware compatible with the D1 mini ESP32?

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This is probably nothing to do with your ESP and all to do with your rPi. My rPi 4 struggles with some compiles.

Install the Python version of ESPHome on your PC and compile and install using that.

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Yep, it’s the ESPHome addon which doesn’t have enough memory. Nothing related to the ESP itself.

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if a restart/reboot of the HA does not help (to clear memory) a seperate esp-home instance would indeed be advisable

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Hi,
I’ve tried to dabble in ESPHome yesterday to get my mmWave Sensors to work and I hit the brick wall as OP here. I’m running a Pi4 with 4GB RAM. I get random error messages and unpacking things takes ages when I want to install YAML to my ESP32.
Is ESPHome really this heavy on compiling?
I would have assumed that it’s “fine” and all I wanted to do for a start is to push the “defaul” yaml to my device / compile it in order to manually uplaod it via ESPHome web. :frowning:

Thanks for the hint of the Python-Version. Seems a bit “backwards” and not what I wanted (coming from arduino code and manually uploading it but oh well…)

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Why do you care what computer you run esphome on?

But I have never heard of esphome failing on a 4G machine.

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It has the exact same dashboard, editor and USB and OTA loading as the HAOS add-on.

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Don’t want to necro this thread so I created a new one. I’m just pulling my hair out because it should be so simple…

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When you have done that please let us have the link to the new thread

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Done.
Browser was a bit stupid and didn’t want to let me create the thread. Thanks