ESPHOME
ESP32 device is detected loally connected on USB using webesp, “prepare for first use” succeeds then get “An error occurred. Improv Wi-Fi Serial not detected”. I havent programmed one for a while but it used to work and now I have two new different ESP32 devices, each from different manufacturers and I get this on both.I have tried on both a Windows 10 laptop and a Mac ( Ventura 13.4.1 ).
Home Assistant 2023.7.1
Just plug it into your home assistant server and flash it like that.
The home assistant server is a raspberry Pi. When I plug it in there it doesnt appear as a candidate to flash.
So when you click “install” then choose “Plug into the computer running esphome dashboard” what do you see?
That did it, didnt realise hitting continue brought you to those options, had been running esp web instead
Hi,
the solution “Plug into the computer running esphome dashboard” is an inconvenient workaround. The web utility should work. In my case, I have Esphome running under Dietpi in a Debian container on a Windows 10 box. So there are shenanigans required.
Is there a Github repository I could report it to?
Thanks
B.
Came here with the same issue - after sucessfully uploading by “PREPARE FOR FISRST USE” to esp32-s3 I had same “An error occurred. Improv Wi-Fi Serial not detected”. Maybe that’s because device was in ‘boot’ mode (I had to kick it by pressing Boot while powering up my usb cord). After I turned off device from usb then plugged in again - I did once more “PREPARE FOR FISRST USE” - and after sucessfull installation it finally asked me for WiFI name and creds.