What a difference when you use a proper ESP-WROOM-32. Flashed and connected immediately - no wasted two days of wondering what was going wrong.

On the bright side; I now know how to use a wire-wrap gun, and v2 #ESPsomfy will be a neater job for #HomeAssistant .

**REMEMBER** Friends don't let friends use crappy ESP32-C3 SuperMini clones with a ground plane almost touching the chip antenna! 🤦

Instant ewaste.