{
 "id": "ch340-serial-link-to-esp32-s3-fails-above",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "CH340 serial link to ESP32-S3 is usable to 1 Mbaud and unusable above it \u2014 by two different failure modes on the same board",
 "symptom": "At 1,000,000 baud a 64 KB LCG test pattern arrives byte-exact (0 errors / 196,608 bytes, ~99.6 KB/s). At 1,500,000 baud and above a framed reader gets nothing at all and times out, 3/3 trials at each of 1.5M, 2M and 3M. An earlier run on this same board, inspecting JPEG markers directly rather than waiting on whole frames, saw bytes still arriving at 2 Mbaud but corrupted (0x00 where 0xFF markers belong). esptool still reaches the board at 2 Mbaud, because its handshake is low-speed and short.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-cam"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "ESP-IDF",
  "esp32-camera"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Offload object detection from ESP32-S3 to host over UART serial link",
 "date": "2026-08-25",
 "status": "provisional",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}