kind | lesson |
symptom | Native-USB ESP32-S3 boards can wedge during reflash and lose USB enumeration, requiring physical intervention; this triggers documented USB controller death on this host. |
hw | ble, ch340, esp32 |
sw | esp-idf |
host | linux, aarch64 |
intent | Use an ESP32 as an unattended BLE stand-in advertiser for arrival detection testing without risking USB controller death from a wedged native-USB board |
project | hidden |
date | 2026-09-01 |
status | working |
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