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PlatformIO UPLOAD button does only build, but no upload to device

See original GitHub issue

Environment:

PlatformIO Version Home 0.3.0·Core 3.5.0a15

Plattform: Espressif32 Version 0.10.0 Espressif32_stage Version bcfaefd

Framework: Arduino

How to recreate

Any ESP32 project (or example) will show the problem. Select project Press UPLOAD button (or select from Menu PlatformIO->Upload ==> Build starts ==> After build is finished nothing else happens, last message is:

Calculating size .pioenvs\esp32dev\firmware.elf
text       data     bss     dec     hex filename
415909    72348   27160  515417   7dd59 .pioenvs\esp32dev\firmware.elf
 [SUCCESS] Took 2.70 seconds

#Workaround Open PlatformIO terminal and enter platformio run --target upload to build and upload

Additional info

When building for ESP8266 or Arduino Uno the behavior of PlatformIO UPLOAD button is as expected.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:13 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

YannikWcommented, Nov 1, 2017

I notices the same problem with ESP8266.

Try to add tagets = upload to you projects platformio.ini, this works for me.

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Jeremaiha-xmetixcommented, Aug 2, 2020

Had the very same issue, even when operating Arduino’s native IDE. Apparently, reset pin was connected (accidentally) and does prevent upload new code.