WiFi access point not set-up

[Paluty]

Hi there,

I have purchased the SH ESP32, downloaded the SH-ESP32-nmea2000-gateway from Github (ZIP), connected the device to a Win11 PC and built and uploaded the software via USB to the SH ESP32 using Visual Studio Code. No changes have been made to the software. Build and Upload says in the terminal that it was finished with "[SUCCESS]". When monitoring a connection is made and the following text appears:

/QUOTE
--- Terminal on COM5 | 115200 8-N-1
--- Available filters and text transformations: colorize, debug, default, direct, esp32_exception_decoder, hexlify, log2file, nocontrol, printable, send_on_enter, time
--- More details at https://bit.ly/pio-monitor-filters
--- Quit: Ctrl+C | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H
ad:0x40080400,len:3036
entry 0x400805e4
/UNQUOTE

The device is not yet connected to NMEA 2000 or any other sensors.

The red LED on the SH ESP32 indicates power (tried both, to power through USB and through 12v) and the blue LED starts flashing (1sec on/1sec off) indefinitely once the device restarted following the uploading procedure. My understanding is that the meaning is "no wifi set-up completed yet".

I would expect that the WIFI access point to configure the device would be set up. I cannot find the WiFi access point with any device available (Android and several Win PC).

Any Idea?

I tried the same with the standart SensESP but the outcome does not change. Build and Upload works but no WiFi access point available, blue LED flashes.

I am not a professional but like to play with open source devices. The aim is to connect the SH ESP32 via WiFi to my Raspberry 4 Openplotter/OpenCPN device and have NMEA 2000 data forwarded via SignalK as well as some data from analog sensors (mainly tank but possibly engine data in case it works).

Thanks!
Hanno

[Paluty]

Hi,
I understood what I did not understand before. The SH-ESP32-nmea2000-gateway repository does not have the full SensESP functionality but is a stripped down NMEA2000 to USB package. I will use it as is and try how it works.

Will do some testing with other (non SH) ESP32 devices to include some sonsors and submit the data via WiFi. If it works, I might merge the funktionality on the SH-ESP32 device at a later stage.

Will close this for now.

Thank you Matti and everyone else involved for putting all these templates and tutorials together! Very helpfull for a beginner like myself.