ESP32 CAM for Arduino Kits Monitor Snapshot Face Detection Recognition WiFi Bluetooth Camera Module with 128M SD Card USB to Serial Cable HC-SR501 Sound Sensor Compatible for Arduino IDE(Tutorial)

What a great kit for me. It has what appears to be all the main ingredients, and will save me money also I will be able to use Some of the other items and more projects

Even though I bought this just for the sensors and breadboards, I'd still would like the board to work. I have other ESP32-CAM boards and they work fine. This one doesn't upload the program. I've followed the directions. I keep getting an error that the board isn't found. Maybe it is the USB to serial cable since I can't even get the serial monitor to run (port busy error). So three stars since an operating board isn't a big issue for me.UPDATE: It seems the USB to serial cable is defective or it has issues with Windows 10.

The product came defective from the supplier, the steps of the example provided by the supplier were followed and when uploading the program it gives the error 0x20002, which means that the camera ribbon cable or the camera is defective. Several tests were carried out to make sure that the supplied voltage was the necessary one and in the end everything has been a waste of time, not recommended at all, looking for another supplier.

Easy to use. Found a good reference code and worked in no time. Not the best quality picture. But by far good enought for the price and for what I wanted to build.

nice kit

Go to the link on label inside the box. Takes you to a "GitHub" page. Download the "Guide Manual(Read Me First).doc" and the other two files (Green clone or download button). The guide manual has the 11 steps needed to get this working. They are more "reference" than "exact". If you are not comfortable with Arduino IDE process, you will struggle- I already had the IDE installed, and stuck with version 1.8.12 did not go back to 1.8.4 as they recommend- Step 1: I don't think the USB-To-Serial is needed (It got recognized on my Win 10 PC without it, that may be a PC specific need, it showed up in Device manager/ports).- I did need to add the "additional board manager URL's" in IDE/preferences- They did not have a Step 2 in the document- Step 3: I did not have to install the ESP8266Flasher.exe (The IDE handled the board nicely without it).- Step 4: Be careful here. The picture shows different versions of the components, which have different pinouts.- The DHT11 picture does not match the DHT11 provided, and the wiring in the picture does not match the DHT11 in the picture (I ended up using my own DHT11, that matched the picture, but adjusted the wiring to that version)- The OLED display in the picture has the Vcc/Vss pins in a different order than what was provided in my kit- The rest of the components wired up fine. Soldering the pins on the little boards was a pain- Steps 5/6: Setting up the accounts was fine, those website provide the instructions. Key is to get the API keys so you can have the SW interact with them- Step 7: The code uploaded fine when the esp8266-weather-station-master.zip library was imported. Just open the code from examples (I just used the basic WeatherStationDemo). Save as you own version, so you can make changes- It did not compile, there is an issue with the TimeClient.cpp file. I had to replace"return round(getCurrentEpoch() + 3600*myUtcOffset + 84600L)%85600L;" with"return round(getCurrentEpoch() + (3600*(long)myUtcOffset + 84600L)%85600L);"not sure if this is related to 1.8.4 vs 1.8.12 but myUtcOffset is a float not a long- If on the monitor you see repeated "HIGH" or "LOW" it means that it can't talk to the DHT11 (it can get stuck in an infinite loop). Check you cables, or disable the temp/humidity update call to see if you can get the rest to run- It does take a while to initialize the weather, so be patientAnyway, for $20 (pretty much the costs of the components), you can do quite a bit. It was my 1st experience with the ESP8266, it will not be the last

This package of products requires a specific tutorial that is only reveled after purchase. The quality of the tutorial is not for the new user. Where there should be links to a driver install, there is merely a description. Where there is a link, they don't work.

there was no SD card in the box, everything else was in there but no SD card. also the link to the tutorial never worked and I sent a message to them with no answer.