Espeasy: PCA9685 on ESP32

[alancilia]

ESP32-WROM-32 Crashes and restarts when adding PCA9685 in devices
and PCA9685 will not Work at all.

Tried: 20190607_esp32test_1M8 & 20190607_normal_WROOM02_2M.bin
same problem only works with the old ESPEasy32_R20100.bin
also tried older releases with no luck

This is what I get from rs232 terminal:

Guru Meditation Error: Core 1 panic'ed (Unhandled debug exception)
Debug exception reason: Stack canary watchpoint triggered (loopTask)
Core 1 register dump:
PC : 0x4008d88b PS : 0x00060e36 A0 : 0x40093626 A1 : 0x3ffaffe0
A2 : 0x3ffb0050 A3 : 0xb33fffff A4 : 0x00000000 A5 : 0x00000000
A6 : 0xffffffff A7 : 0x00000000 A8 : 0x80091f48 A9 : 0x40093418
A10 : 0x00000003 A11 : 0x00060e23 A12 : 0x40082725 A13 : 0x3ffd200e
A14 : 0x00000aaa A15 : 0x3ffb0160 SAR : 0x00000012 EXCCAUSE: 0x00000001
EXCVADDR: 0x00000000 LBEG : 0x4000c46c LEND : 0x4000c477 LCOUNT : 0xffffffff

Backtrace: 0x4008d88b:0x3ffaffe0 0x40093623:0x00000000

Rebooting...
ets Jun 8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0xc (SW_CPU_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fff0010,len:4
load:0x3fff0014,len:812
load:0x40078000,len:0
load:0x40078000,len:10164
entry 0x400789f8
ªU58 :

INIT : Booting version: mega-20190607 (ESP32 SDK v3.3-beta1-179-ge931fe9f5-dirty)
58 : INIT : Free RAM:292876
59 : INIT : Cold Boot - Restart Reason: CPU0: Software reset CPU CPU1: Software reset CPU
61 : FS : Mounting...
98 : CRC : No program memory checksum found. Check output of crc2.py
111 : CRC : SecuritySettings CRC ...OK
173 : INIT : Free RAM:287668
174 : INIT : I2C
175 : INIT : SPI not enabled
175 : System: Error - To much Plugins
175 : System: Error - To much Plugins
847 : INFO : Plugins: 75 [Normal] [TEST ESP32] (ESP32 SDK v3.3-beta1-179-ge931fe9f5-dirty)
848 : Programming error! - Increase PLUGIN_MAX
850 : WIFI : Set WiFi to STA
981 : WIFI : Connecting AP1 attempt #0
982 : IP : Static IP : 192.168.10.44 GW: 192.168.10.1 SN: 255.255.255.0 DNS: 8.8.8.8
988 : WIFI : Not configured in Station Mode!!: AP1
993 : OTA : Arduino OTA enabled on port 3232
1861 : WIFI : Static IP: 192.168.10.44 (TEST-ESP32-0) GW: 192.168.10.1 SN: 255.255.255.0 duration: 1859 ms

[alancilia]

Hello

Still no Fix for this in the last Release :(

[TD-er]

That's correct, it has become part of another PR which was not yet merged.

[alancilia]

hello

Any chance this will be fixed pls :(

[TD-er]

I have been too occupied with other stability issues.
Only the last few weeks, I've been testing with ESP32 (again), but not with this one.

I just did have a look at the plugin and noticed there is some very strange code in there to mark which addresses are in use.

I changed it and here it is not crashing on ESP32 when I add the plugin and enable it.
Should that be enough to make it crash?

[TD-er]

See this commit: https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/pull/2617/commits/0efe42fa5568adeff0ee02d5303e3f29fab752c3
Can you test it yourself?

[alancilia]

Hi TD-er

Thanks very much for finding some time to look at this bug , i will wait until the the bin file is released cos I don’t know how to compile it .
Hope the fix will be in the next release .

Thanks again

Regards
Alan

[TD-er]

Could you test this test build ?
It has a lot of other commits in it, so don't run it on a node that has to be in operation or is hard to reach :)

[alancilia]

Hi thanks very much for your work i will test tomorrow and let you know

[alancilia]

Good Morning Td-er

I just tested the bin file and it is working great here not crashing anymore :) .
in the old ESPEasy32_R20100.bin there was a problem that after a few minutes
i2c will stop working, i have build a small setup here I will leave it running for
a few hours and let you know .

Thanks again

Alan

[TD-er]

Thanks for testing.

[alancilia]

Hi Td-er
After 2 hours running i2C still works fine so everything is ok now.
will this fix be in the next release?

[TD-er]

Yep, I have a very big PR ready which also contains this fix.

[alancilia]

Nice :)

Thanks and keep up the good work

[TD-er]

Just to let you know.
The fix is not yet included in last night's build, but it has been merged now, so it will be included in tomorrow's build.