Aideepen ESP32-CAM W-BT Board ESP32-CAM-MB Micro USB to Serial Port CH-340G with OV2640 2MP Camera Module Dual Mode Support NodeMCU

One set worked and the other did not . I noticed one camera had OV2640 stamped on the ribbon and the other did not have any camera model stamped on it. I tried both cameras on both MB's and the unstamped camera would not work with either MB's. The working camera would not work on the MB that came with the unstamped camera. Please send another OV2640 and MB replacement. Sense my first review I have changed the rating from two to five. The refunded my purchase and I purchased the same items and they all worked as expected.

I love this devices to build smart home devices. ESP32 very versatile and easy to use. Connectivity, quality are amazing for this small gadget

The units are good, they work well, easy to re-program using Arduino IDE. I was able to backup the original firmware and flash it with the example camera server to have it connect to my WiFi. I had to select AI Thinker ESP32-CAM as an option. Only downside is that there is a noticeable sound coming out of it while its transmitting WiFi, so while streaming video its very noticeable. Apparently this is typical of ESP32 units not specifically the camera modules, at least as far as I've seen online posts by others.

Save your money and get the official AI Thinker version elsewhere. After months of questioning myself I'm giving up on these. I've tried all the troubleshooting steps I can find but these simply do not work as advertised. I've been trying the ESP32CamWebServer Arduino sketch on both modules. Other sketches work on these and I've verified my pinout settings are correct. The web page takes forever to load, and it will only sometimes give me a picture. I even tried boosting the input voltage to 5.2v, which helped the web page to load a little faster, but I am still not able to get the video stream to work. Just a single frame per boot. I'm also getting the "E (489) esp_core_dump_flash: No core dump partition found!" error in the serial monitor. I also noticed that one of the USB-TTL adapters uses a typical 2mA while the other uses about 270mA, and its CH340G chip gets too hot to touch within a minute. I think this is just a bad product.

If you are experimenting with video and using the ESP32-CAM AI-Thinkers' you have made a good choice for an introduction to video processing, and you absolutely should have one of these programmer boards. But you should also have one of the cable converters too since you don't have access to the I/O pins with the cam plugged into this programming unit and the cables allow full access. So, buy one, but you only need 1 (one), then all you need is the camera boards. And try the wide angle lenses with the longer cable.. absolutely worth the upgrade. Nice that it comes with a cam but this should really be slated as a starter kit for working with cams. Note: to remove cam, black flap lifts up like it's on hinges, just be careful, and if contacts aren't clean, a pencil eraser works wonders for cleaning contacts.. tip from an old pro. Have Fun - Kent

so far so good. picture quality is adequate for my needs. in the Arduino IDE choose AI Thinker ESP32-CAM in the board manager. hold the IO0 button and tap the RST button to put it into flash mode.

The boards can work with enough effort, but the lack of any supporting documentation makes this a lot harder then it should be. The programming process itself is fairly easy, after you correctly setup the Arduino IDE, and the USBC port makes that part easy. I setup a copy of the esp32 home project to play with the camera and do some home assistant integration. 1 of the boards I received had a solder bridge on the receive line, and I had to get out a soldering iron to fix it. The onboard antenna is just awful, barely working in the same room as my wifi router. I had to once again get out the soldering iron to switch to a little antenna I had laying around and performance improved remarkably. Went from 30 seconds to load the 1600x1200 image to less then 1 second, and I could actually use it in another room. Additionally the boards I got seem to always enter in the bootloader mode on boot, and I have to press the reset button to get them to run my code. This is extremely inconvenient because any power disruption completely takes the board down. Without any schematics or user guide, it's not really possible to know if this is intended or just another design or manufacturing flaw, or how to easily fix it. The boards do work, and decently well when you get them running, but I would recommend going one of the other boards after the annoyances I had to manually fix.

Worked as expected. Eventually. note: use a DATA rated USB cable - NOT JUST A POWER supply cable... I had two cables - both for charging things - neither had data - I didn't consider this and nothing would work. I installed drivers... chased after the wrong device... force installed drivers ... crashed windows... reloaded windows... finally asked ChatGPT.... first suggestion was ensure you are using a DATA CABLE... found a data cable for a kids tablet... AND they worked immediately and were recognized by windows... without installing any drivers.

This Aideepen ESP32-CAM board works perfectly for my IoT and camera projects. The build quality is good and the board is compact. Camera output is clear and Wi-Fi connectivity is stable. It supports Arduino IDE easily and is great for beginners as well as advanced users. Value for money product.

The esp32 cam board is good quality. It is easy to flash with the shield and the camera quality is good. I have found there has been a variation for esp32 camera quality. The only thing is that you need to install a driver. The driver that comes with Arduino IDE won't recognise the ftdi chip on the shield. The fix (driver reference and installation) is described in a number of forums and instruction sights.

O produto chegou funcionando perfeitamente pela porta USB (a câmera funcionando corretamente e com a rede WIFI aberta pra todo mundo acessar), mas após gerar um novo código (no atual arduino IDE) e depois dar o RESET no "ESP32 CAM" é exibido (pelo Serial Monitor ) o erro 0x105 (erro gerado por não acessar a câmera). Não há suporte e nem forum para resolver o problema. Incluindo que não há informações do "Firmware" e a empresa "Aideepen" não está vendendo a versão deste produto.

Bought these for a near-turnkey use of AI-on-the-edge to read my water meter. Loaded up first try and the specs (particularly the PSRAM) are as described and everything works right away. Highly recommended!

Facile à utiliser, conforme à la description. La plaquette USB facilite grandement la tâche pour la programmation. Excellent produit!