Sys.Getinfo ID Definition

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1

Greetings,

When I run Sys.Getinfo on my ESP32 device, I receive an 8-byte value:

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“id”: “fce8c4699a8b9abe”,
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I searched for a definition of this ID but couldn’t find anything in the docs. Is it related to the MAC address of the device?

Thanks!
-AD

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2

Yes it is a MAC address.

3

Looks like it’s the device.id

4

lsm,

Thanks for the response. I’m not convinced it is a MAC address. Here’s what I see:

  1. esp_wifi_get_mac(): 240AC42CE668
  2. Sys.GetInfo.id: 8ce8c4697a8b99be

…I trust #1 if for no other reason that it is the correct number of bytes (6) for a MAC address. Not sure what SysGetInfo is doing under the hood?

Check out this thread from the ESP32 forum:

The esptool.py chip_id function is printing the MAC address CRC byte in the highest byte of the output, and losing the lowest byte of the MAC entirely. This is a bug, probably the chip_id function should do nothing on ESP32 (or alias to read_mac).

Might a similar bug be at work here?

In any event, since the id reported here is questionable, I think I’ll rely upon esp_wifi_get_mac() for the real MAC address / unique ID.

-AD