Add new board Seeed Studio Xiao ESP32-C6

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Just wondering if anyone had luck getting the new Xiao ESP32 C6 from Seeed Studio to work on PlatformIO.

I created a ticket here: Add Support for Seeed Studio ESP32C6 · Issue #1422 · platformio/platform-espressif32 · GitHub

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You can use the Tasmota branch of platform-espressif32 for Arduino-ESP32 3.x support and then add the board definition for the Xiao ESP32C6 on top of that.

Try out the Arduino project

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You can use the “esp32-c6-devkitm-1” board definition with the Seeed Xiao board. Note however that the PlatformIO doesn’t currently support the Arduino framework, just the espidf framework for the ESP32-C6.

You can go a bit deeper, by switching to the Arduino-ESP32 V3 libraries and forcing the board definition to support arduino.

This is a bit hacky, and you’re moving out of PlatformIO supported areas…

In your platformio.ini file:

[env:seeed_xiao_esp32c6]
platform = espressif32
board = esp32-c6-devkitm-1
framework = arduino
platform_packages = 
	platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32.git#3.0.2
	platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32-libs @ https://github.com/espressif/esp32-arduino-libs.git#idf-release/v5.1

You will also need to edit the board definition in esp32-c6-devkitm-1.json

Under linux its here:

~/.platformio/platforms/espressif32/boards/esp32-c6-devkitm-1.json

Change the following:

  "frameworks": [
    "arduino",
    "espidf"
  ],

Good Luck.

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Dear Euan,
i test the same configuration as describt, but i got the following error:
.platformio\packages\framework-arduinoespressif32-libs\esp32c6\bin\bootloader_qio_.elf’ not found, needed by target `.pio\build\seeed_xiao_esp32c6\bootloader.bin
Do you have any idea?
Best regards
Dieter

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Then your esp32-c6-devkitm-1.json is missing a setting for flash or PSRAM memory type or frequency, from which the bootlaoder file path is derived. Did you use the latest one from https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/blob/develop/boards/esp32-c6-devkitm-1.json?

Does the https://github.com/maxgerhardt/pio-xiao-esp32c6 project not work?

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I test the blink example https://github.com/maxgerhardt/pio-xiao-esp32c6 and it works!
Thanks a lot for the quick help.