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All from one person's first install, reported in #305 and alongside it. **"34 presets" was a promise the flash stopped keeping.** The site said the image brings 34 presets. It brings one. The firmware kept only Origin when the rest moved out to the filesystem, and nobody updated the copy, so a correct install looked like a bug and got filed as one. It now says what actually happens, and points at the Basics pack for the other 33. **Nothing in the port picker.** A module already running firmware does not always announce itself, and the fix is the BOOT / RST sequence, which appeared nowhere. It is in the build guide and under the flash button now. That note also corrects something worth getting right. The flasher's own troubleshooting screen sends people to CP2102 and CH34x driver downloads, and on the port we tell them to use those drivers have nothing to do with anything. The ESP32-S3 drives its native port from a USB-Serial/JTAG controller inside the chip, so Windows binds its own CDC driver. Verified on the device rather than assumed: hardware id USB\VID_303A&PID_1001 Espressif, not a bridge chip driver usbser inf usbser.inf provider Microsoft So the driver links are for the right-hand UART port, and chasing them on the left one is a dead end. Said so. **Wi-Fi setup silently skipped on one machine.** ESP Web Tools waits ten seconds for an Improv response and moves on without it, which reads as "flashed successfully" with no Wi-Fi step. It is device timing rather than anything about that PC's own network: after flashing, the native USB re-enumerates, and how long that takes varies by host. It appeared within the default on the machine here, so this is a slow-host fix rather than a reproduction. Raised to twenty seconds, which costs nothing when the device is quick. Also: the button has been called "Flash Patternflow" for a while and three docs still called it "Flash Patternflow OS". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The note under the flash button had grown into a manual. It was covering the port, the pattern count, the pack and the BOOT/RST recovery, which is more than a caption can carry and still be read. Two lines now, and a link to the flashing guide for the rest. The guide gained the step it was missing. It never said how to get patterns onto a freshly flashed board, which is the exact gap that made one person read a correct install as a broken one: the image ships Origin alone and nothing told them where the other 33 were. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
They are the way out of that block, one to the pack that fills an empty board and one to the guide that answers everything the caption no longer does. On a dark panel an opacity shift alone was easy to miss. Colour is inherited rather than accent, since two orange runs in a two-line note reads louder than it needs to. The accent is kept for hover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All from one person's first install, reported in #305 and alongside it.
"34 presets" was a promise the flash stopped keeping
The site said the image brings 34 presets. It brings one. The firmware kept only Origin when the rest moved out to the filesystem, and nobody updated the copy, so a correct install looked like a bug and got filed as one. It now says what happens, points at the Basics pack for the other 33, and names the port.
Nothing in the port picker
A module already running firmware doesn't always announce itself. The BOOT / RST sequence appeared nowhere, and it's in the build guide and under the flash button now.
That note also corrects something worth getting right. The flasher's own troubleshooting screen sends people to CP2102 and CH34x driver downloads, and on the port we tell them to use, those drivers are irrelevant. The ESP32-S3 drives its native port from a USB-Serial/JTAG controller inside the chip, so Windows binds its own CDC driver. Checked on the device rather than assumed:
The driver links are for the right-hand UART port. Chasing them on the left one is a dead end, and the guide says so now.
Wi-Fi setup silently skipped on one machine
ESP Web Tools waits ten seconds for an Improv response and moves on without it, which reads as "flashed successfully" with no Wi-Fi step. It's device timing rather than anything about that PC's network, which was the reporter's guess: after flashing, the native USB re-enumerates and how long that takes varies by host.
Not reproduced here — it appeared within the default on this machine. So this is a slow-host allowance rather than a fix for a confirmed bug. Raised to twenty seconds, which costs nothing when the device is quick.
Also: the button has been called "Flash Patternflow" for a while and three docs still called it "Flash Patternflow OS".
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