Thanks for the help, I'm not the OP but it does allow me to do a step forwards in my project! I'm planning to buy some property on the Costa Blanca for the holidays and make a home automation system there, and I'll need that kind of function.

Oh, that's great you asked, I was in the process of ordering an A01 revision CP2102N bridge... Is this issue recurrent with all of these models, and if yes, can it be solved? If no, what would be a good alternative?

Great job on that project! THat's an inspiration for us newbies, keep up with the awesome work!

Yeah, I guess that would work as well! But I'm still glad I've heard about the tool the OP described, it'd be useful for more than the ESP32.

Thanks for explaining how you got out of that problem, I ran into the same issue and remained stuck until I applied your method. I hope I won't need that forum too often, but with my newbieness, I guess I'll come around a lot