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T-Beam

The T-Beam is an Arduino-compatible development board from Lilygo. It is based on the ESP32 CPU and includes

  • WiFi
  • BlueTooth
  • LoRa
  • GPS

T-Beam

Configuring the Arduino IDE

To allow the Arduino IDE to connect to the T-Beam so that you can flash the firmware, you first need to add support for the board. The steps for doing this are summarised below. More detail is available on the Espressif documentation page.

  1. Start the Arduino IDE
  2. Open the preferences dialog as shown below Arduino preferences
  3. Enter the following into the Additional Boards Manager URLs field. If the field already contains some information, add the new URL after a comma. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_index.json
  4. Save the preferences
  5. Open the Boards Manager option on the IDE Tools menu. Search for ESP32 as shown below and click Install