I guess this is very early days for some of these. So much potential though.

I have the AtomS3 at the end of a tailbat battery, and let my son play the sample "Snake' game I burned, (from m5burner)

I wish there was a micro-sized external battery for the AtomS3 - not as big as the tailbat, but maybe half the size of the atom itself. But I guess the M5StickCPlus fits that niche.

Is there going to be an M5StickC_S3 in the near future? (Seems like a logical step)

So, just trying to connect from UIFlow2 without knowing any better, I tried to select my device, but the only options in that "Select Device" window, under "My Device", were "Private" "Token Required" and "Public" with no explanation of what these meant. It was 100% not clear or intuitive to me what the purpose of these three options were.

The clickable buttons next to each of these - the only UI options available to try - all just redirected to the store page. Since I already bought and owned a device, this was very very frustrating. I had no idea what the intent of that screen was - all I knew is it really wanted to send me to the store, and that I had nothing else to try. I had no idea of the need for m5burner for example.

It was only much later when I figured out through trial and error how to get my device bound to my account, and the UIFlow2 image burned, before it would show up on that selection screen.

There needs to be (in my opinion) a much higher level overview of the steps needed to get through your first connection to a device - something that would explain what that screen was, and when it was used.

There may -be- something like that existing already - but I couldnt find anything.

The "Documents" link at the bottom of the CoreS3 store page (https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-cores3-esp32s3-lotdevelopment-kit) just directed to the page explaining pinouts, and modules, and the EasyLoader patch tool. (https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/CoreS3)

Critically, there is nothing on that last page that talks about the need for m5burner, or the steps required to connect to UIFlow2 - at least none that are obvious. There is a small menu at the bottom of the page, "developer tools" that goes to a page that lists links for many things including m5burner. But even then it isnt clear you need it, or what it is for - at least that is how it was for me.

So It took a lot of hunting around, googling, dozens of redirects to the store, before I finally pieced together enough of an idea of the order of things to do.

Someone else might have found all the info right away, I guess, and I was just not smart enough - but Ive been developing embedded firmware for over 40 years, on hundreds of platforms, and found the whole information-hunting process very frustrating for this product.

Having said that, once I connected to my CoreS3, I was so happy I ordered several more products from M5Stack - Atom Echo Smart Speaker, M5StampS3, AtomS3 Lite, AtomS3, M5StickC PLUS, two Atom TailBats, Env-III module, CardKB Mini Keyboard, and some other battery modules, which just arrived, that I can play with this weekend :D

@dr_froggy_rd
"Uiflow redirect me tothe shop."

Oh man, that loop of trying to figure that step out, and being redirected to the shop over and over was extremely frustrating. It was not a smooth customer experience.

I am not sure I understand what you mean here?

Oh man, that loop of trying to figure that step out, and being redirected to the shop over and over was extremely frustrating. It was not a smooth customer experience.

I still do not know why it is not workimg with atom s3
voila

By the way i have a m5stick cplus. I could burn uiflow on it.
Does it mean then i can install any program made with uiflow on it?without needing to install the program via m5burner?from uiflow.
I am looking for the key of each part cannot find those i have the sn feom the label ...
By the way i printed the part yesterday and i neede to scale it a bit to fit the tailbat and a m5atom s3. Thank you for that you saved me time also i had to print it 3 times before getting the right dimensions.
It may be due to my printer tolerances! I will send you the dimension i used. Bye

Frog

No it doesn't start in this mode. Thank you for watching the video.

The second time it work fine.
Connect to computer,
Press and hold boot button for a few minuets and "Port ***** detected" will show,
Click erase and wait,
click write and wait,
power down and rest the S3 device and UIFlow starts.

The boot load mode was quite tricky to trigger.seems like
On the atom s3 i need to press the side button for 3 seconds and a green led is shining for 2 secs i however do not know if you started thw mode. It stays in this mode untill you power off.