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Add an un-supported board for ESP8266 in web site. #653

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nkolban opened this issue Oct 13, 2015 · 8 comments
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Add an un-supported board for ESP8266 in web site. #653

nkolban opened this issue Oct 13, 2015 · 8 comments
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nkolban commented Oct 13, 2015

In the boards page found here:

http://www.espruino.com/Reference#boards

It is approaching time to consider adding the ESP8266. I suggest a picture of the NodeMCU board with content for NodeMCU and commentary that any ESP8266 hosting board will work (ESP-1, ESP-12, Huzzah and more). Since this would appear on a primary Espruino page, permission and concurrence from @gfwilliams must be obtained.
@nkolban nkolban added the ESP8266 This is only a problem on ESP8266 devices label Oct 13, 2015
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Yes, that'd be fine.

You'll want to make sure the image and CSS in BOARD.py matches up nicely first.

IIRC scripts/build_board_docs.py is the thing that builds the HTML you need to check

@nkolban nkolban changed the title Add an un-supported board for ESP8266 Add an un-supported board for ESP8266 in web site. Oct 13, 2015
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nkolban commented Oct 16, 2015

A somewhat related forum discussion can be found here:

http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/276005/

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tve commented Oct 17, 2015

#672 provides 90% of what's needed for an esp8266_12 board. Someone else will have to do an esp8266_01 board :-)

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nkolban commented Oct 17, 2015

What is the background to having multiple ESP8266 boards as opposed to just one? I would have assumed that we would have had one "logical" ESP8266 board encompasing ESP-1, ESP-12, NodeMCU devkit, Hazzah and others.

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tve commented Oct 17, 2015

In the Makefile we need several targets in order to distinguish the various amounts of flash and the completely different linking process for the larger flash sizes with OTA update capability.
I think it also makes sense to have two boards, one for esp-01 and one for esp-12 because the available pins are very different and the pinout is also different.
Finally the flash save area address is different between the non-OTA and the OTA versions because it needs to fit into some free space.
If you manage to combine them, great :-)

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nkolban commented Oct 18, 2015

I don't have any great ideas for the Makefile/build system ... maybe we can all put our heads to it as a community. If it weren't for the build system, would you be in favor of a single ESP8266 logical board with flash memory variants? ... Eg. ESP8266 512K, ESP8266 1MB, ESP8266 4MB ... etc?

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tve commented Oct 18, 2015

Honestly, I don't care too much. The esp-01 is dead for me anyways... But at this point I'm not volunteering to refactor...

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tve commented Dec 7, 2015

esp8266 is now added to web pages :-)

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