Enviro+ with ESP32 support

[Pineapple-Jake]

Hello there,

Does anybody know if there is any progress on the ESP32 support for the Enviro+ unit?
Being able to have WiFi to export the data for further analysis would be well…use-full.

Looking at two older topics from 2020 there was speculation about possible support after COVID and once the ESP32 has USB support (it has) so keen to understand if ESP32 support is coming.

thanks!

Enviro Featherwing and ESP32 Feather?

Howdy, I imagine that it is hard to get the example code for the new Enviro Featherwing to work on ESP32? (Because CircuitPython requires a Feather with USB host support, or something?) Thanks! Hamish

Which feather to use with enviro+

I think the only Feathers which don’t support CircuitPython are the ESP8266 and ESP32 Huzzah boards. The new ESP32-S2 chips will apparently get a CircuitPython Feather but that’ll not be until Adafruit go back to normal after Covid, whenever that will be. They do make Airlift expansion boards for adding WiFi, but double check exactly what you want to do first, some task need a decent amount of RAM and Adafruit recommend something like an M4 board for using these with CircuitPython. I can’t th…

[Shoe]

Adafruit’s ESP32-S2 supports CircuitPython. It looks like one of the Pimoroni devs started making a library for it on Circuitpython, but I don’t know the current state of it/if it works with the current version of CircuitPython. Might be worth giving it a shot?

[Pineapple-Jake]

Hey Shoe,

Thanks for the link. I check out these Lib’s as part of my initial setup and my (perhaps incorrect) understanding is the pimoroni_envirowing is essential for running the Enviro+.

Yet (AFAIK) this Lib is not under development. The last GitHub commit was 3 years ago.

[maucyr]

Hi @Pineapple-Jake were you able to find a way to get the ESP32 to work with the Enviro+ Phat? I’m trying to find a way to connect up an ESP32 device because the raspberry PI tends to sometimes crash and I’d prefer a microcontroller ESP32 or Arduino device to connect up and send data to adafruit.io.

[Pineapple-Jake]

hi @maucyr
I did not. I tried for several times and sought some additional support to no avail.
My apologies.

Regards