first I did the bootloader only | adafruit | Page 1

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:32 AM

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switching to a thread to keep the clutter down, sorry I didn't before

When I do the hold BOOT/press RESET/release BOOT sequene, LED is green. Press reset after flashing is done and the LED turns red and immediately goes to green and I see MATRIXS3BOOT mount

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if you have that you should be able to copy the CircuitPython UF2 file to it to install CP - I think that's actually what the Chrome helper does

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:33 AM

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no worries, i'll respond after doing a boot reset

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:35 AM

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I just manually copied adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit_matrixportal_s3-en_US-8.2.9.uf2 to MATRXS3BOOT and that worked for me, now I have CIRCUITPY

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:35 AM

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ok, then when I get the reset again I will use that method instead of the web process

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:39 AM

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the LED seems very modal

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:39 AM

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yea, it goes thru a lot of shifts

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:39 AM

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When I have MATRIXS3BOOT up, I get the rapid purple/red/green with no breaks

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:40 AM

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yea, they seem to be using it to show some status, waiting to get to a REPL to figure out why

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:41 AM

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that instruction to click during purple only seems relevant when CIRCUITPY is up - the LED is purple for a very quick second so if you want to get to MATRIXS3BOOT from CIRCUITPY, try clicking RESET, pause very very briefly then click again within less than a second from the first click - that should be while the LED was purple

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once CP is installed a single reset click should take you back to CIRCUITPY

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I feel like we need a flowchart labeled with both colors and times 🙂

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:47 AM

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yea, often I am reading a few different versions of the flow because i've gotten to a page from another section and then lose track of "am I at the CIRCUITPY" or the "*BOOT" stage

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:48 AM

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I have to set up a few of these for signs we're putting up around our hackerspace, so it's good getting back to it anyway

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once you get CircuitPython installed they're very nice boards

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:49 AM

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I was very happy they came back in stock

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ok, your description of the led modes really helped

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:49 AM

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yay!

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:49 AM

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I was able to get it back into MATRXS3BOOT

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:49 AM

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awesome 🙂

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from there if you cp adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit_matrixportal_s3-en_US-8.2.9.uf2 to it you should be good (fingers crossed and no cosmic rays thank you very much)

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:50 AM

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now I'm copying UF2

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and I have a CIRCUITPY drive

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\o/

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:50 AM

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awesome!

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 1:50 AM

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now comes the harder part - getting the idea in my brain into code

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 1:51 AM

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that's the fun part! 🙂

mortal jewel Dec 27, 2023, 1:55 AM

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there's always esptool too

astral slate Dec 27, 2023, 2:37 AM

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Seems like the web installer worked out okay

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But yeah if @untold bay sticks with the ESP32 long enough he’ll definitely become friends with esptool 🙂

untold bay Dec 27, 2023, 2:39 AM

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one new thing at a time :)

#first I did the bootloader only