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TrevorW
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Posted: 11:54pm 14 Nov 2023

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Some of the lower-cost Raspberry Pi Pico W board clones use a ESP8285 WiFi chip and not a infineon chip used by the "original" board. Is the MMBASIC firmware compatible with these lower-cost boards?

JohnS
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Posted: 06:33pm 15 Nov 2023

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TrevorW said Some of the lower-cost Raspberry Pi Pico W board clones use a ESP8285 WiFi chip and not a infineon chip used by the "original" board. Is the MMBASIC firmware compatible with these lower-cost boards?

An utterly different chip in so many ways and so it will not run either the RPi code or MMBasic (or any other code which was for the Infineon).

John

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Posted: 11:47pm 15 Nov 2023

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Hey Trevor. Welcome to the forums.

As John said though, this clone will NEVER be supported I would expect.
As far as the PicoMite Web is concerned, the firmware will only ever support the WiFi chip as used on the genuine Raspberry Pi module I would think.

I could always be wrong, but I don't think that Peter(matherp) would be interested in porting to another WiFi chip. As I understand it, it was a huge amount of work, to get the WiFi working at all the way it is. I don't think Peter would be willing to do a page-one re-write(as far as the WiFi is concerned) to support another WiFi chip at this point.

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

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Posted: 12:08am 16 Nov 2023

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I didn't mean it wouldn't be (or would be) supported, just that it isn't now (and it looks like it would take plenty of effort).

John

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