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MikeO
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Posted: 02:55pm 06 Feb 2016

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If you happen to need to program a Mite remotely and you don't have a TCP-Serial device but you do have a ESP8266, then use it! I can report I have used with brilliant success an ESP loaded with ESP-Link firmware , its just worked! I used the latest beta version. just joined it to my network as a station and monitored and reprogrammed a 170 with no issues at all.
I did have some issues with Teraterm (on TCP) however but I found another terminal program called Shamcom Terminal , rather odd interface but worked well.

Mike

Codenquilts

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Posted: 11:18am 08 Feb 2016

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Mike,

How smooth of a connection are you getting? I tried an earlier version of that software and found it VERY "jerky". I never lost any data in either direction but the hesitations were bad enough MMEdit could not download a program to the Micromite. At the time I was not sure if it was my ESP8266 experimenter board or the software. I have been planning to setup another ESP8266 module without the extra hardware of the experimenter board and see if it will run any smoother.

--Curtis

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MikeO
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Posted: 12:38am 10 Feb 2016

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Hi Curtis, I have to say I could not get MMEdit to communicate via TCP but also I did not spend much time on that aspect as I have usually used Teraterm to load programs. I also could not get Teratem to behave so that led me to look for an alternative which i found in Shamcom terminal, this program worked perfectly. I had none of the "jerky" communication you mentioned. The program has a Macro function so I set one to send Autosave and then selected the "crunched" file from mmedit to send . As i say I had no problems at all and did many program uploads and program monitoring as I was debuging and optimising a program.

Cheers Mike

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