Matrix portal with arduino

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Kidkill
 
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Matrix portal with arduino

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Hello, is it possible to use the matrix portal's esp32 wifi capabilities with arduino ide? I'm trying to use Blynk to output text to an rgb matrix but as soon as I try to verify the simplest code to get the portal online it tells me
Error compiling for board Adafruit Matrix Portal M4 (SAMD51).
and this
#error This code is intended to run on the ESP32 platform
. Are there some libraries I need to use to get the esp32 involved?

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Re: Matrix portal with arduino

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The ESP32 on the MatrixPortal is just a wifi coprocessor. Application code is typically written for the SAMD51 main MCU. See https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-matrixportal-m4 for more information.

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Re: Matrix portal with arduino

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I had gone through that once, but after another look I noticed the info about WiFiNINA. For anyone else looking for this I found the example Blynk_WiFiNINA_WM has SAMD51 support and it compiles for the matrix portal. Thanks Dave.

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Re: Matrix portal with arduino

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Excellent!

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