I am eagerly awaiting expresif or some uber cool hacker to provide a more reliable firmware, and a company with better QC start making them, then this device will shine. The result of this in some cases is frustration and my advice is get 2 or 3 just in case, flash it if you have problems and if that doesnt work or you dont have time just bin it, its not worth the frustration.
#Esp8266 firmware 00160901 update#
Get disconnected or hang at strange times (as in the case of 2 of my units)īoth may work after a firmware update but until I see production level firmware and 100% success rate I would keep a mosfet on the Vdd power line to power off-on the unit on any error (dont just rely on the reset pin or the chip enable)
You may get a dud that will never connect to a router (as in the case of 5 of the units I bought) it may or may not give an error, say its ready or connected but its lying.Ģ. This does not mean you should not use them but it should mean that you should be prepared for other problems outside your wiring or code. Posted in Microcontrollers, Wireless Hacks Tagged ByPIC, email, ESP8266, imap, pic Post navigationįrom my experience, of 10 devices and only 3 working well, are they very alpha-stage firmware and zero quality control construction. After scrolling through those lines, the PIC hits the ESP8266 to query the server again, grabbing the latest email, and repeating the whole process again, all without needing to connect the device to a computer. The device grabs the latest email in an inbox and displays the date, sender, and subject on the display. Because this board isn’t ‘compile and flash’ like an Arduino, it’s perfectly suited for changing WiFi configurations and IMAP server credentials on the fly. The ByPic is a board built around the BV_Basic firmware, stuffing a PIC microcontroller in an Arduino form factor and giving it a BASIC interpreter. is using a ByPic for writing to the LCD and querying an inbox through an ESP8266 module. created a device that reads the subject and sender lines from the latest email in his inbox and displays it on an LCD using the ESP8266 WiFi chip. Ever so slowly, everyone’s favorite WiFi adapter is making its way into Internet-enabled projects.