ESP32 Forum

Hi there

I am very new to ESP32. I have a ELEEGO robot and i would like to connect the ESP32 cam directly to my laptop and program it with Arduino. This is for a school project and this is quite urgent!

I have:
Arduino IDE Version: 2.0.1

ESP32 -WROVER Camera-V1.5 connected with a USB cable to a laptop with Windows 11.

I tried different tutorials, but i am not able to get the image from the cam on my laptop.
- installed the Board package,
- selected ESP32 DEV Module or ESP32 WROVER Module
- loaded examples like CameraWebserver
- put the SSID and password of my wifi
- put partition scheme to huge app...
- tried PSRAM to enable or disable


when i upload the program to the esp, it works and i get

"Hash of data verified.
Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin..."

then i go the serial monitor and i press the reset button on the ESP, and then i get:

"clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fff0030,len:1344
load:0x40078000,len:13864
load:0x40080400,len:3608
entry 0x400805f0

E (43) camera: Camera probe failed with error 0x105(ESP_ERR_NOT_FOUND)
Camera init failed with error 0x105"

So my questions are:
- do i need to power the esp32 differently than through a USB cable?
- should i select the board as esp32 dev module or esp32 WROVER module?
- do i need a extra module between the esp32 cam and the laptop?
- any idea what i can do get the image on the laptop?

Thanks in advance!!!

For anyone who is trying to get the camera module from their elegoo smart robot kit to work as a ip camera with the camerawebserver example, you need to select "CAMERA_MODEL_M5STACK_WIDE" as the camera model for it to work.