Don’t you just hate it when dev boards have some annoying little quirk that makes them harder to use than they should be? Take the ESP32-CAM, a board that started appearing on the market in early 2019 ...
Most ESP32 projects I see treat the chip as an island that boots, joins a Wi-Fi network, and talks to Home Assistant. The chip is merely treated as a thing that produces data for something else to ...
These are the commercial products I've replaced with ESP32-powered variants.