new SGS kit; oled never turns on for setup

fehknt
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new SGS kit; oled never turns on for setup Sept 20, 2020 13:02:15 GMT -8

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Post by fehknt on Sept 20, 2020 13:02:15 GMT -8

I just got the SGS 2.0 kit yesterday and was doing initial set up; when I got to the step of setting up my extender board, I got no power to the oled screen.

The sgs extender itself seems to boot ok, the lights on all the ports go off in sequence and after that sequence, the power and IO13 LED stay on (blue / red respectively).

Any hints of where to go next? I tried looking for the wifi signal anyway and didn't see one with any name that looked right to connect to if I wanted to try to go ahead without the oled display.

At this point I have only the pixel, the oled screen, the wifi antenna, and the power attached (I unplugged the relay board, sensor and light stick in case they were causing some issue but it is acting the same).

Thanks!

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new SGS kit; oled never turns on for setup Sept 21, 2020 17:47:10 GMT -8

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Post by SDL on Sept 21, 2020 17:47:10 GMT -8

We know exactly what the problem is!!!!!!

Here is our message:

Folks,

We had an error in our project kit building process that sent some, if not all, of SGS Extender Boards (the ESP32 board) out unprogrammed. Bummer! The few rewards we have not shipped out yet will be shipped with the programmed boards.

We will send out programmed boards out immediately (like tomorrow and this weekend) to all of you backers. Please keep the other board with our compliments. We screwed up!

You can tell if you have an unprogrammed board by watching the LEDs on power up. They will cycle through in a pattern on power up and then the OLED board will NOT turn on.

You can program them yourselves, if you like, but we intended to send out them all programmed.

If you want to try, check out the code at:

github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_ESP32_WirelessSmartGardenExtender

And read the tutorial to use the Arduino IDE to program your board. Our board emulates an Adafruit ESP32 Feather, FYI.

learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather/using-with-arduino-ide

Don't worry about it though, you will have another board soon.

This is a picture of the SGS Extender Board below.

Best regards,

Laurie Vessey, President

fehknt New Member Posts: 8	new SGS kit; oled never turns on for setup Sept 21, 2020 18:00:28 GMT -8 SDL likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by fehknt on Sept 21, 2020 18:00:28 GMT -8 OK, thanks for the update! I think because I got this from switchdoc store direct not thorough the kickstarter, so I missed that communication.

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