ESP32 remove OTA programming ?

[Lindley]

Did a few OTA tests with the ESP32 Dev 32 Module via the Arduino IDE and the Examples etc and it all worked ok.

Now we want to revert to normal Serial/USB programming, though we can seemingly program a new program, it just reverts to the existing OTA program.

Is there a simple way to removed the OTA from the ESP32 ?  -  have looked on the web but not found anything understandable for our basic level.

[GromBeestje]

Try to erase it before flashing it again.
I don't know about Arduino, but using esptool.py it can be done like

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esptool.py erase_flash


[Lindley]

Thanks,  that seems to have cleared the problem of the old program reappearing when it says the new program compiled and uploaded ok ?!

Don't have python loaded, but came across this ytube where you can use the esptool via the browser, very easy to erase and reload the factory defaults etc.