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Joined: 05/10/2019
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| Posted: 09:07pm 23 Sep 2021 |
Does anyone know where there is a *SIMPLE* guide to using these things - that doesn't even mention he word "Arduino"? No, I'm not going to give in, buy one and spend a year learning an obscure C dialect, I'd rather just forget the ESP-01 than consider that.
I don't want to build a programmer on breadboard - I have one with a switch. (Of course, it came with no instructions whatsoever).
The info on updating the firmware seems to be written in Hebrew and never seems to go step-by-step.
The documentation was written for people with a PhD in designing computer chips while riding a unicycle.
More seriously, the display in the latest version of the programming software isn't like the display shown in the instructions. I managed to get the thing to read the data off the ESP (after changing the SPI speed from 40MHz to twenty-something - no-one warned me that this might happen). I have the zip of the latest AT system, but finding out how to install it is a nightmare. I have the instructions that tell you to put certain files in certain places (but not how to do it) but it shows extra files in the list that aren't in the package that I have. Figuring out which bits are needed for a 4 Mbit module is a pain anyway.
I obviously need a 10yr old Arduino "coder" who could sort this c**p out in 10 mins...
:)