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- ADR 0003: the C5 gets its own consequence instead of sitting in the ADR 0006 amendment. It names the single-slot table, the chip revision minimum (v1.0, CONFIG_ESP32C5_REV_MIN_FULL=100) and the longer WiFi scans with 5 GHz. - platformio.ini: the [esp32] comment names the C5 and C6 as released debug builds; the C5 comment no longer repeats the C6's. - Transceiver: the C5 comment says why TX and RX are 4 and 5. - CI: the addr_fs comment names both partition tables. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Firmware builds on pioarduino (Arduino 3.x, ESP-IDF 5.5), pinned to one release
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We moved every firmware env from `espressif32 @ 6.13.0` (Arduino 2.0.17 on ESP-IDF 4.4.7) to pioarduino's `55.03.312` (Arduino 3.3.12 on ESP-IDF 5.5). IDF 4.4 no longer gets security fixes for Wi-Fi, lwIP and mbedTLS, and the planned RMT radio needs IDF 5's RMT driver. The official PlatformIO platform never shipped Arduino 3.x, so pioarduino, a community fork, is the only way to get it in PlatformIO. We pin one release URL rather than `stable`, so a framework upgrade is always its own PR with its own size check and hardware test.
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## Considered Options
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- **Stay on IDF 4.4.** Rejected: no more security fixes, and no new RMT driver.
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- **Rebuild the IDF libraries with `custom_sdkconfig`** to leave out PPP, NAT and provisioning (about 20 KB the firmware never uses). Deferred: it makes builds much slower, and log level 2 already makes the ESP32 build fit.
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- **Grow the app slots in the partition table.** Rejected: an OTA update can't change the partition table, so every existing device would need a USB flash.
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## Consequences
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- **Firmware size.** The ESP32 image grows from 1,382,640 bytes (v3.0.14) to 1,555,472 at `CORE_DEBUG_LEVEL=2`, leaving 17 KB of the 1.5 MB OTA slot. At level 3 it doesn't fit, so release envs build at level 2 (warnings and errors) and debug envs stay at 3. PlatformIO's "Flash:" figure counts ELF sections, not the image, and reads about 45 KB low, so CI checks `firmware.bin` against the app partition and fails under 8 KB free (`.github/size_check.py`).
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- **No more C3 builds.** Its image grows by 214 KB to 1,651,216 bytes, 76.5 KB over the OTA slot even at level 2. C3 boards stay on the 3.0.x releases.
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> **Amended by [ADR 0006](0006-two-security-modes-eleven-http-routes.md) (4.0.0).** The C3 builds again. Without the old API (ports 8080 and 8081), its image is 1,498,512 bytes at level 2 and leaves 72.6 KB of the OTA slot. It runs on chip revision v0.3 or later only: the framework's C3 libraries are built with `CONFIG_ESP32C3_REV_MIN_3`. Its default radio pins moved off GPIO 12-17, which hold the SPI flash.
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- **The C5 is updated over USB.** New in 4.0.0. At level 2 its image left 3.4 KB of the OTA slot, under CI's 8 KB, so like the C6 it is released as a debug build with one 3 MB app slot (`esp32_huge_app.csv`), which no OTA can write. The framework's C5 libraries run on chip revision v1.0 or later only (`CONFIG_ESP32C5_REV_MIN_FULL=100`). Its WiFi has 5 GHz too, so the passive scans for the configured network (`src/ESPNetwork.cpp`, 300 ms a channel) cover about 38 channels instead of 13: about 11 s instead of 4 s, depending on the country's channels.
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- **Ethernet PHY ids are ours.** Arduino 3.x renumbered `eth_phy_type_t` (`ETH_PHY_GENERIC` is 0). NVS, backups and the web UI keep the Arduino 2.x numbers as `eth_phy_id_t` (`src/EthPhy.h`), translated by name when Ethernet starts. Never cast a stored id to the framework enum.
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- **Ethernet only on the original ESP32.** Arduino 3.x has the RMII MAC API only where `CONFIG_ETH_USE_ESP32_EMAC` is set. S3, C3, C5 and C6 build without Ethernet.
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- **Updates roll back until proven.** We override the core's `verifyRollbackLater()` hook to return true, and `loop()` marks the new firmware valid once it has run 60 s and the network is up. A reset before then boots the previous firmware. The LittleFS image an update wrote stays, so the old firmware runs with the new web UI.
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- **Tooling.** pioarduino needs its own Core fork (`pip install pioarduino`, the pioarduino IDE extension in VS Code), which it installs into `~/.platformio/penv` in place of PlatformIO Core.
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