Which board to select in PlatformIO for ESP Wroom 32?

Question

I'm quite new in this microcontroller topic and my next step is to make use of a wlan module, which is a ESP WROOM 32. As IDE I'm using Visual Studio + PlatformIO and I can't figure out how to access the module. Atm I use these parameters:

[env:esp12e]
platform = espressif8266
board = esp12e
framework = arduino
monitor_speed = 74880

but I receive:

(...)
CURRENT: upload_protocol = esptool
Looking for upload port...
Auto-detected: /dev/ttyUSB0
Uploading .pio/build/esp12e/firmware.bin
esptool.py v2.8
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting......
Chip is ESP8266EX
Features: WiFi
WARNING: Detected crystal freq 20.45MHz is quite different to normalized freq 26MHz. Unsupported crystal in use?
Crystal is 26MHz
MAC: 00:08:ff:00:00:00
Uploading stub...
Running stub...

A fatal error occurred: Invalid head of packet (0x46)
*** [upload] Error 2
============================================================================= [FAILED] Took 3.27 seconds =============================================================================
The terminal process "platformio 'run', '--target', 'upload'" terminated with exit code: 1.

edit: The ESP WROOM 32 is a NodeMCU 32 and the board config now is:

[env:espwroom32]
platform = espressif32
board = nodemcu-32s
framework = arduino
monitor_speed = 115200

and to check if everything works:

void setup() {
  pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
}
 
// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
  digitalWrite(2, HIGH); 
  delay(1000); 
  digitalWrite(2, LOW); 
  delay(1000);
}

I also had problems that I received Failed to connect to ESP32: Timed out waiting for packet header nevertheless but here is a nicely explained workaround for that. Solution is, either you hold the BOOT button pressed while uploading the code or you sold a capacitor to specific pins on the board. I just tried to hold the boot button and it's blinking now. Finally :) I'm sure, a lot of further issues are only waiting on the way ^

Answer 1

The ESP WROOM32 is an ESP32, not an ESP8266. You have PlatformIO configured for an ESP8266, specifically the ESP12e, and there's no way that's going to work.

You'll want something more along these lines:

[env:espwroom32]
platform = espressif32

To choose the board - if you're using a breakout board, you'll need to be more specific about it - what model is it? ESP WROOM32 is just the name of the CPU module; PlatformIO needs to know the size of the flash storage in order to upload properly. Your link is to the entire Espressif ESP32 site. Otherwise, look through PlatformIO's list of ESP32 boards and find one that matches the amount of flash storage your board has.

You might want to read PlatformIO's ESP32 documentation.