ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Feather ESP32-S2: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5303

Using ASUS Chromebook, Intel Core i3-1115G4, 8GB DDR4 RAM, ChromeOS 103.0.5060.132
Linux penguin 5.10.114-16025-ge75506b9d98e #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 16 18:54:29 PDT 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux
USB-C to standalone Feather.

Can successfully download to and run circuitpython sketches on Feather.

Now trying to install WipperSnapper...

Downloaded wippersnapper.feather_esp32s2.1.0.0-beta.42.uf2

Press feather reset button twice. ChromeOS File Manager shows "FTHRS2BOOT" device drive.

Drag-n-drop uf2 on that drive. Feather Neo light blinks yellow for a few seconds then turns solid green.

Copy result: "Copy operation failed. The file or directory is unusable."
There is no WIPPER drive.

Please suggest help ideas.
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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Onboard INFO_UF2.txt:

TinyUF2 Bootloader cd9d938 - tinyusb (0.10.1-109-g9b3ec69b)
Model: Adafruit Feather ESP32-S2 TFT
Board-ID: ESP32S2-FeatherTFT-revA
Date: Dec 17 2021
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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Also tried:
wippersnapper.feather_esp32s2_tft.1.0.0-beta.42.uf2

Same fail

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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I believe I'm experiencing the same or similar problem. I've also created a post: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=193579

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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I found this webpage with other wippersnapper uf2 releases: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Wi ... o/releases
Tried installing releases going back to beta 37.
All fail in same way.
Still need help, please.

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Are you able to install CircuitPython on the Feather ESP32-S2 from ChromeOS?

There are instructions for this here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... cuitpython

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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I tried to reinstall circuitpy using esp tool, but that fails.
Current boot result:

Beagle Term. https://github.com/beagleterm/beagle-term
Device found on /dev/ttyACM1 via Connection ID 3
Attempting to connect to WiFi...
Attempting to connect to WiFi...
ERROR [WDT RESET]: ERROR: Unable to connect to WiFi, rebooting soon...

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Fixed. Followed factory reset procedure and reinstalled uf2 bootloader. Reinstalled wipper beta uf2. But I think the trick was to use a variant SSID in secrets.json. Verified with LED component.

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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Sorry, what is a variant SSID? Is this another WiFi network?

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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mbd wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:31 pm Fixed. Followed factory reset procedure and reinstalled uf2 bootloader. Reinstalled wipper beta uf2. But I think the trick was to use a variant SSID in secrets.json. Verified with LED component.
I believe that I have the same issue. Not sure what you mean by variant SSID.

Can you give some more detail about how you resolved the issue?

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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WiFi routers often publish multiple SSIDs. Mine has a 5 gigabit ssid and a 2.4 ssid. I switched to 2.4.

But I have another problem in circuitpython. The adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit_feather_esp32s2-en_US-7.3.2 board module should have board.ESP_CS, board.ESP_BUSY, board.ESP_RESET, but it does not. Makes it difficult to access adafruitio. Not in Adafruit CircuitPython 8.0.0-alpha.1 either.

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Re: ESP32-S2 Feather WipperSnapper Does Not Install

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mbd wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:37 pm WiFi routers often publish multiple SSIDs. Mine has a 5 gigabit ssid and a 2.4 ssid. I switched to 2.4.

But I have another problem in circuitpython. The adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit_feather_esp32s2-en_US-7.3.2 board module should have board.ESP_CS, board.ESP_BUSY, board.ESP_RESET, but it does not. Makes it difficult to access adafruitio. Not in Adafruit CircuitPython 8.0.0-alpha.1 either.
Thank you for the tip, my router has a single SSID name for both 2.4 and 5 Ghz WiFi networks. I tested the theory using the CircuitPython Internet Test https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-esp ... ernet-test article. When trying to connect the device to the network with the SSID that has both 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands enabled, it fails. I created a new, 2.4 GHz only, WiFi network, and I was able to connect.

Sorry that I can't help with missing items you mention above.

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