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- Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:02 am #10310 This is a liiitle bit strange one:

I was dowloading this morning the NodeMCU Flasher program from https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher. As you know, this is the official firmware programmer for NodeMCU DEVKIT V0.9.

Has anybody any idea why is it trying to connect at startup over the internet at that address?

Details at http://esp8266-projects.blogspot.com/20 ... lling.html

ESP8266 MPDMv4 AC MAINS Dimmer Home: http://esp8266-projects.com/2016/04/mpdmv4-mains-dimmerswitch-html/
Available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/nEXT_EVO1/universal-ac-mains-dimmer-mpdmv41/

- Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:26 am #10311 haven't checked that but maybe it was trying to compare/get/learn the latest version of the firmware or the application?

- Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:52 am #10313

haven't checked that but maybe it was trying to compare/get/learn the latest version of the firmware or the application?

As I said, have no idea - pop-up jumped out of the blue, maybe somebody here knows more about.
Don't want my fridge to start speaking with chinese girls without my knowledge. Any girls, to be politically correct. Or boys. Even more correct. lol.

ESP8266 MPDMv4 AC MAINS Dimmer Home: http://esp8266-projects.com/2016/04/mpdmv4-mains-dimmerswitch-html/
Available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/nEXT_EVO1/universal-ac-mains-dimmer-mpdmv41/

- Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:03 am #10314

haven't checked that but maybe it was trying to compare/get/learn the latest version of the firmware or the application?

As I said, have no idea - pop-up jumped out of the blue, maybe somebody here knows more about.
Don't want my fridge to start speaking with chinese girls without my knowledge. Any girls, to be politically correct. Or boys. Even more correct. lol.

Ahahah

For now, what i can see is sending a get to that link with the application version on most scenerios, applications check for updates like this AV is acting paranoid like me

Is this abusable ? sometimes yes,
Is this necessary ? for version check purposes, yes
Is this trustable ? Depends most of us tried the nodemcu firmware even before it was open source

Sounds like kinda leap of faith, i know I don't know if the source codes for the software is available but if they are available to check, you can rebuild it the way you wish