ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:01 pm #4717 Although I had a lot fun writing LUA Uploader, wouldn't it be better if NodeMCU supports a flag to enable/disable software flow control? That way, while developing, we can enable XON/XOFF and disable it when downloading binary data.
Most terminal programs would support XON/XOFF already, so script upload would be much faster than the fixed delay that we have to have between each line now.
Just a thought, not that high on feature list.

- Sat Dec 13, 2014 3:28 am #4732 Yes, XON/XOFF would be nice.

I'm using LUATOOL now, that checks the response of the ESP after every line upload. If the uploaded line and response line are not equal it reports an error. I like it.

- Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:09 pm #4752

Yes, XON/XOFF would be nice.

I'm using LUATOOL now, that checks the response of the ESP after every line upload. If the uploaded line and response line are not equal it reports an error. I like it.

Oh that's a better approach. Thanks for the tip!

- Sun Dec 14, 2014 12:12 pm #4811

Yes, XON/XOFF would be nice.

I'm using LUATOOL now, that checks the response of the ESP after every line upload. If the uploaded line and response line are not equal it reports an error. I like it.

This is good, but slows the transfer as compared to transferring data with echo off.

In general XON/XOFF would be useful for larger file transfers at the best rate.

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