connection issues
So I’ve been trying to get this board to register, connect, or whatever you want to call it, for the past two weeks, and it just won’t, no matter what I do. I’ve tried a different program. I’ve tried updating the driver. Nothing works and it also shows up as an Arduino R4 Wi-Fi even though I’ve never owned an Arduino R4 and there’s certainly never been an Arduino R4 Wi-Fi plugged into my computer In the photos, you can see the error message and the settings I have on it and I have checked that the cable I’m using can also transfer data
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The board is a clone of the Arduino Uno R4 WiFi.
Do you think that would cause the connection issues?
It's probably because you have the wrong board selected.
The board appears to have the ESP32-S3 flashed with Arduino's firmware for the Uno R4 WiFi.
That is why it is detected as such and it has a propriety method of programming which will only work if you select Uno R4 WiFi from the Tools menu in the IDE.
All of Arduino's docs for the Uno R4 WiFi should be applicable for this board.
A part of the text I was going to put in didn’t upload for some reason I meant to put in that the ESP32 chip says “ESP32-S3-MINI” so I don’t know if that screws something up but I’ll definitely test what you suggested
Printed on the chip itself? That doesn't affect anything. The Uno R4 WiFi has the same chips. The other chip on the board is the main mcu, Renesas RA4M1. The ESP32-S3 is used for programming, USB to TTL, WiFi and Bluetooth.