This needs shoring up, but this is roughly the outline of what I did...
Recreation steps (windows 11):
- Board was initially an online wippersnapper device (late nineties).
- Used circuitpython.org/downloads via "Install Bootloader" to install a recent bootloader version on feather, using included erase option (not separate erase step).
- Install offline firmware (v1 or offline-auto-config assets).
- replace secrets with non-default data
- Generate config for BME280 and adalogger featherwing on Feather ESP32-S2
- Copy config.json to device (or write through editor then eject drive).
- Reboot device and monitor serial port
- See PCF8523 fail to initialise if v1 offline asset, otherwise if auto-config see no serial output followed by eventual reboot and no config.json file remaining - then attempts to load online mode).