ESP32 WLAN init and BT init Problem

[dvcam99]

Hello FC team,

if I do a init of ESP32 WLAN and BT component together I´ll get the follwing compiler message.

[5/7] Linking CXX executable esp-project.elf
[6/7] Generating binary image from built executable
esptool.py v3.3.4-dev
Creating esp32 image...
Merged 27 ELF sections
Successfully created esp32 image.
Generated C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/esp-project.bin
[7/7] cmd.exe /C "cd /D C:\ESP32\YGE_DBU_Texy\YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3\build\esp-idf\esptool_py && C:\ESP-IDF\-tools\python_env\idf4.4_py3.7_env\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/dirkb/Desktop/esp-idf/components/partition_table/check_sizes.py --offset 0x8000 partition --type app C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/partition_table/partition-table.bin C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/esp-project.bin"

FAILED: esp-idf/esptool_py/CMakeFiles/app_check_size C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/esp-idf/esptool_py/CMakeFiles/app_check_size

cmd.exe /C "cd /D C:\ESP32\YGE_DBU_Texy\YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3\build\esp-idf\esptool_py && C:\ESP-IDF\-tools\python_env\idf4.4_py3.7_env\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/dirkb/Desktop/esp-idf/components/partition_table/check_sizes.py --offset 0x8000 partition --type app C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/partition_table/partition-table.bin C:/ESP32/YGE_DBU_Texy/YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3/build/esp-project.bin"
Error: app partition is too small for binary esp-project.bin size 0x13c100:
- Part 'factory' 0/0 @ 0x10000 size 0x100000 (overflow 0x3c100)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ninja failed with exit code 1
Executing action: all (aliases: build)
Running ninja in directory C:\ESP32\YGE_DBU_Texy\YGE_DBU_Texy_V_1_8_3\build
Executing "ninja all"...

Is this a known issue?

BR
Dirk

[mnfisher]

Hi Dirk,

It's complaining that the app partition isn't large enough (though if all you are doing is initialising the WiFi and BT I would be surprised that this is the case)

You will need to define a custom partition table - and point to that using menuconfig - allocating more memory to the application.

Something like

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# Name,   Type, SubType, Offset,  Size, Flags
# Note: if you have increased the bootloader size, make sure to update the offsets to avoid overlap
nvs,      data, nvs,     0x9000,  0x6000,
phy_init, data, phy,     0xf000,  0x1000,
factory,  app,  factory, 0x10000, 2M

Assuming you are using a 4MB (or above part).

Save as partition.csv (name to suit) and use menuconfig partition table to point to this.

Then recompile - and test again.

Might also be worth setting compiler options to 'size' (again using menuconfig)

Martin

[dvcam99]

Hello Martin,

many thanks for your suggestion. I will review it.

Additional question. Were do I find the menuconfig partition table in order to setup the link for the csv?

In between I did a cross check. Only BT init or WLAN init compiles correctly. Both together not like mention before.

The reason why I´m looking forward in order to use BT and WLAN is actually I want to make sure both are switched off. This because I want to save power and more important reducing the risk of 2.4GHZ interfernece by the ESP32. May the concern is that a beacon or so would start.

BR

Dirk

[stefan.erni]

Hi Dirk

something else for power....
If you like to save power you can also reduce the speed from the clock in the menue config or with a c-command to 160Mhz or 80Mhz
and you can let the esp32 sleep for a while or sleep until you wake the esp32 up with a pin pull down

viewtopic.php?t=3130&hilit=power

regards

Stefan

[BenR]

Hello,

This is something I've personally come across and I ended up having to manually edit a file in the compiler.

Here's the error I was getting: ESP32 Image length 1352272 doesn't fit in partition length

Edit this file in a text editor.
C:\FC_ESP\frameworks\esp-idf-v5.3.1\components\partition_table\partitions_singleapp.csv

For me the fix was to Increase the "factory, app" size from 1M to 0x180000.

[dvcam99]

Hello Stefan,
Hello Ben,

I can report that the fix from Ben is working. I can compile now with WLAN and BT init together.

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This for the main reason that I can not tolerate a 2.4GHZ emission from the ESP32. LOL

I will see if I can monitor a difference in the emission spectrum with or without BL WLAN init.

So far many thanks guys.

BR

Dirk

[mnfisher]

Can do as Ben suggested - or from menuconfig:
I'd used the custom 'route' for creating a SPIFFS partition...

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Then select the top row Partition table (single factory app, no OTA) ----> and change to Custom...

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Then change the name here if needed:

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Martin

[BenR]

Ooh that's also good to know thanks Martin.