I recently decided to get back into electronics and wanted to give Arduino a try.
So far the onboarding experience has been terrible.
The main board from the Plug and Make kit I bought only a few days ago seems to be incompatible with the Arduino Cloud, the Kit has guided me to, to set it up?
Any help or comment would be appreciated.
The bord itself says Uno R4 Wifi.
It could be a browser issue, what browser are you using?
Can you upload a picture of it?
There are some known issues with not identifying the board properly, even if it is a genuine Uno R4. "Wifiduino32S3" is most likely due to this.
Hi @victorli. The UNO R4 WiFi board has a hardware module that provides Wi-Fi and BLE communication capabilities, and acts as a USB interface with the computer. The brain of this module is an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, which is running a custom firmware created by Arduino. Arduino periodically releases new versions of that firmware as enhancements and bug fixes are made to the firmware code.
Arduino Cloud automatically updates the firmware when it detects that your board has an outdated version. During the firmware update, the UNO R4 WiFi is put into a special mode. While the board is in that mode it will be identified as a random ESP32-based board. The board remains in this mode even after the firmware update process finishes.
You should be able to put the board into the normal mode where it is once more detected as an UNO R4 WiFi by power cycling the board.
Please try this:
After doing that, try creating a Arduino Cloud IoT Device from the board once again, just as you did before when you encountered the problem. This time the Device creation should be successful. If it isn't, add a reply here on this forum thread to let us know and we'll provide further assistance in recovering the board from this state.
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