ESP32 not appearing on wifi

OK - I’m a beginner at this, so I’m not sure if what I’m doing is actually right in the first place.

I have an ESP32-WROOM 32 devkit board. I’m trying to load the code from the following project onto it for a rain sensor.

I hit a fair chunk of errors which I believe I corrected, and the code compiles and downloads (I’ve now got 417 lines of code which I didn’t want to paste in here as I think it’s a lot, so if anyone wants to look I’d be grateful for advice what to do with it) … but it’s not appearing on my wifi network.

I know the secrets for the wifi name and password work, as I had to go through the ESPHome configuration to make the ReSpeakerLite boards, and they worked fine.

Grateful for thoughts and advice please.

You say ‘compiles and downloads’. Are you using the ESPHome WebUI? I’m not sure if you mean the code is uploading to flash on the ESP32 or if you mean it is compiling and downloading onto your local computer.

If you are using ESPHome WebUI and installing (uploading to firmware) completed successfully. The press the ‘LOGS’ link and see what the output shows. If nothing is showing, try pressing the ‘RESET DEVICE’ button at the bottom of the Logs dialog box. This should reboot the ESP32 an allow you to see it boot up in the log window, and whether or not it is connecting to your network and possibly other errors.

Without more info, that’s about all I can suggest.

Hi, thanks for taking the time to come back to me. I appreciate it. When I solve problems, I do try and update the posts, but in this case I missed it. Sorry about that.

I did manage to solve this and moved on. I think it was a typo on the password for the wifi in the end. Drove me nuts until I found it.