TStat10/T3 on ESP32 Build Instructions

jason.kania · April 30, 2024, 1:18am

According to the instructions here for the T3 on TStat10 build instructions,

temcocontrols/T3-programmable-controller-on-ESP32/blob/master/Documents/How to compile.txt

Please download ESP idf integrated development environment of Espressif Company to compile the code, the version is 4.4.4
1.	Install the ESP-IDF tool installer
Enter the 
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/esp-idf/?idf=4.4 
page, you can download the online version of the esp - idf - tools - setup, also can download the offline version of the esp - idf - tools - setup, the online version of the relatively small, But the component will be downloaded during installation
2.	 Run esp-idf-tools-setup-offline-x.x.exe
You can change the default ESP IDF installation path, which will be used later.
3.	Once installed, you should get an ESP-IDF Eclipse, which is the compiler we used to compile ESP32 code.
4.	Copy the three folders, driver. temco_bacnet and temco_IO_control, from the code download on Github to the components directory in esp-idf and replace the original three folders. This is the change we made to the IDF.
5.	Open the ESP-IDF Eclipse program, File ->Import, Espressif ->Existing IDF Project, select the project directory downloaded from github, and click Finish to load the project into the compiler. Right click the project name and select Build Project to compile.
6.	You can get more help from 
https://esp32.com/index.php
https://espressif-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/index.html

we attempted to download the IDE and compile tools for the ESP32, but the files are not available on the Espressif github download page either directly or through the mirror:

ESP-IDE v2.8.1-with-esp-idf-4.4.4
ESP-IDE v2.8.0-with-esp-idf-4.4.4

Can you please update the instructions given the current available idf version or provide a way to download the IDE+idf framework directly from your site?

We were able to download the idf 4.4.7 framework successfully from the button links in the main part of the espressif page, but are not sure what we would need to set up in standard eclipse for C/C++ to be able to properly reference the idf.

jason.kania · May 3, 2024, 3:56pm

We have spent several days this week trying to find a working environment in which to build the code. Unfortunately, the latest Espressif IDE/IDF integrations, the only ones available, are not working. They fail to connect the IDE to the toolchain and there are numerous forum posts in the Espressif forums where people have complained that the releases are completely broken.

I was wondering if your team has considered using platformio instead?

jason.kania · May 4, 2024, 3:36am

After more attempts to get the latest IDE working, we found this post that links to a version of the IDE+IDF that is mentioned in the instructions.

I have updated the instructions to include this download link and more instructions for others who might try to compile the software and can send a pull request if you are fine with the suggested changes.

github.com

lonerzzz/T3-programmable-controller-on-ESP32/blob/master/Documents/How to compile.txt

Please download ESP idf integrated development environment of Espressif Company to compile the code, the version is 4.4.4
1.	Install the ESP-IDF tool installer
Download the IDE and IDF from the link 
https://dl.espressif.cn/dl/idf-installer/espressif-ide-setup-2.8.1-with-esp-idf-4.4.4.exe 
2.	Run the downloaded executable file to get the IDE and IDF installed on your system
During the installation, you can change the default ESP IDF installation path, which will be used later.
3.	Once installed, you will get an ESP-IDF Eclipse, which is the compiler we use to compile ESP32 code.
4.  Download the code zip file or do a pull from Github for the files and extract those files to a directory
5.  Delete the driver, temco_bacnet and temco_IO_control directories from the build/ide/esp_idf_components directory within the imported project 
6.	Copy the three folders - driver, temco_bacnet and temco_IO_control to the build/ide/esp_idf_components. This is the change we made to the IDF.
7.	Open the ESP-IDF Eclipse program, File ->Import, Espressif ->Existing IDF Project, select the project directory downloaded from github, and click Finish to load the project into the compiler. Right click the project name and select Build Project to compile.
8.	You can get more help from 
https://esp32.com/index.php
https://espressif-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/index.html

After getting compilation to take place, the issue is that the following error (among others) is being generated:

In file included from F:/Programs/eclipse/T3-programmable-controller-on-ESP32-master/main/controls.h:28,
                 from F:/Programs/eclipse/T3-programmable-controller-on-ESP32-master/main/i2c_task.c:12:
F:/Programs/eclipse/T3-programmable-controller-on-ESP32-master/main/ud_str.h:6:10: fatal error: types.h: No such file or directory
 #include "types.h"

There is a temco_bacnet/include/types.h that could be used, but the concerns are:

the master branch in github is not compiling without modifications
the types.h include is used in multiple files
the bacnet.h include is used in multiple files
there are more than 300 lines of linkage errors when all the include references are resolved