IoT M5Cam Project - problems porting code

[MartaRho]

Dear all,

I am trying to use a M5Cam as an IoT system. Long story short: I want to regularly take pictures, connect to a WiFi connection and upload them to a cloud service (in this case Google Cloud Storage, but any other sort of system would work). I found some github repo doing exactly what I need to do, but when trying to adapt it to my board, it crashes with the following error:

E (489) spiram: Expected 8192KiB chip but found 4096KiB chip. Bailing out..

I tried everything to force the board to recognise the 4Mb PSRAM:

ESP32-specific

CONFIG_ESP32_DEFAULT_CPU_FREQ_80=
CONFIG_ESP32_DEFAULT_CPU_FREQ_160=
CONFIG_ESP32_DEFAULT_CPU_FREQ_240=y
CONFIG_ESP32_DEFAULT_CPU_FREQ_MHZ=240
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SUPPORT=y

SPI RAM config

CONFIG_SPIRAM_BOOT_INIT=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_IGNORE_NOTFOUND=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_MEMMAP=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_CAPS_ALLOC=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_MALLOC=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_AUTO=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_ESPPSRAM32=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_ESPPSRAM64=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SIZE=-1
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SPEED_40M=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SPEED_80M=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_MEMTEST=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_CACHE_WORKAROUND=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_BANKSWITCH_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_BANKSWITCH_RESERVE=8
CONFIG_WIFI_LWIP_ALLOCATION_FROM_SPIRAM_FIRST=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_ALLOW_BSS_SEG_EXTERNAL_MEMORY=

Any ideas? I am a total noob with esp32 coding and so, but I would appreciate any help :) Also, if you happend to have some other example code I can take on, please share!

Original Code:
https://github.com/raphaelbs/esp32-cam-ai-thinker/tree/master/examples/google_storage

[heybin]

please choose psram size to 4MB

[MartaRho]

Thanks @heybin ! That worked well (and it was surprisingly easy :) )

Now I gotta fix some new problems...

Stack smashing protect failure!

abort() was called at PC 0x400d645d on core 0
0x400d645d: __stack_chk_fail at /home/marta/esp/esp-idf/components/esp_common/src/stack_check.c:36

Edit: Nevermind, i just needed to change the stack protection level from overall to normal. :)

[MartaRho]

Guess what? I hit another wall.

It seems the camera is giving trouble, despite me configuring the pins as here:

E (218) camera: Camera probe failed with error 0x20001
ESP_ERROR_CHECK failed: esp_err_t 0x20001 (ERROR) at 0x4008a228
0x4008a228: _esp_error_check_failed at /home/marta/esp/esp-idf/components/esp32/panic.c:721

file: "/home/marta/Arduino/esp32-cam-ai-thinker/examples/google_storage/main/main.c" line 195
func: app_main
expression: esp_camera_init(&camera_config)

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