Comments on: Getting Started with the ESP32 Development Board

By: Mod

Mod — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:47:24 +0000

Holy sh**, I can’t believe a lot of the comments on here, from the pure common sense to the ones that would take 2 seconds to find the answer with a simple Google search. I’m impressed with your attitude and helpful responses, I don’t I could answer “what type of computer do you use?”

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:54:56 +0000

In reply to Dave_esp32_newbie.

Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Sara

By: Dave_esp32_newbie

Dave_esp32_newbie — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:37:53 +0000

In the “Installing the ESP32 in Arduino IDE” section of the guide, Step 2 configures the Arduino IDED to use the esp32 board. This failed for me showing the following message in ther output window:

Downloading packages esp32:esp-x32@2511 Failed to install platform: 'esp32:esp32:3.3.6'. Error: 4 DEADLINE_EXCEEDED: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout or context cancellation while reading body)

This post (forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-3-7-now-gives-error-4-deadline-exceeded/1422321) suggested that changing the network connection time out should resolve the issue. It did – Phew.

Thought this might help others.

By: harsha

harsha — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:50:28 +0000

good

By: Petec

Petec — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:57:36 +0000

In reply to DGDodo. Yes, it taking over 10 minutes for the IDE to complete installing the packages. For a second, I though there was something wrong. Search the page and thanks for pointing this out..

By: Dale Firmin

Dale Firmin — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:52:03 +0000

Reading all of the comments is a great extension of the tutorial. Thanks for having a good comment section.

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:09:15 +0000

In reply to Rose Brooks.

Hi.
We’ll crate a guide about it soon.
Rui already sent you more information.
Regards,
sara

By: Rose Brooks

Rose Brooks — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:33:45 +0000

Hello,
I am using the DOIT ESP32 DEVKIT V1, but because some ESP-family cheap boards manufacturers had moved to CH9102X serial port chip, it is not easy to find the good driver working well.
Can you add “Install ESP32/ESP8266 USB Drivers – CH9102x USB to UART Bridge (Windows PC)” and link it in https://randomnerdtutorials.com/getting-started-with-esp32/ ?
thank you.
Rose Brooks

By: DGDodo

DGDodo — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:30:42 +0000

In reply to Bill.

Bill,
I am running Debian 12 and last week installed Arduino IDE 1.8.19.
Followed the same instructions as above with no issues, it only took more time then then mentions ‘ few seconds’. A lot of dependent packages were installed, took over several minutes.
Make sure the Arduino IDE has internet access (proxy?)
After step 2 in ‘Installing the ESP32 in Arduino IDE’, close the program and restart it, to see if it is set correctly in Preferences.
Then step 3. Open the Boards Manager. Go to Tools > Board >Boards Manager…
I installed ‘ESPEssentials’ instead of the mentioned ESP32, as I wanted to test a WROOM version of ESP, and this worked fine.
Weird issue I face is: only the first compile works, a second, third etc run will always fail (although I run the IDE inside it’s own python virtual environment).

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:49:23 +0000

Followed the instructions above to add the esp32 board to Arduino IDE (1.8.19), but no entry exists in the Library Manager. MANY esp32-related entries, but not the one you show in the tutorial.