Re: ESP8266 ESP-07
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:35 pm
Unfortunately I think a lot of the issues you raise with this whole chip and the way it has been released are unlikely to get addressed. All my readings suggest that the chip boys are not and will not be interested in anything we do short of waving money in their faces for 10K, 100k+ units. I don't think that Arduino got any special treatment from Atmel - even though now they have made their ATMega328p the go-to mcu for most people.
If you want good documentation - go to TI or one of the other big players and prepare to pay for it. But they aren't that interested in helping you hack away - in their mind volume sales comes from established manufacturers like Sony, Samsung etc. The hobby market is totally irrelevant to their business model, they don't see any cross-over sadly.
I think you might have been very unlucky to get a bad batch of chips, but don't give up yet! It might be worth trying a dev board such as the nodemcu dev kit - or the limpkin one - at least these will have some quality control and you can contact the makers if you have problems.
If you or anyone else can offer ESP modules with quality control then how much premium would that attract? Perhaps some enterprising readers can start a little business buying and testing and then standing by these things?
If you want good documentation - go to TI or one of the other big players and prepare to pay for it. But they aren't that interested in helping you hack away - in their mind volume sales comes from established manufacturers like Sony, Samsung etc. The hobby market is totally irrelevant to their business model, they don't see any cross-over sadly.
I think you might have been very unlucky to get a bad batch of chips, but don't give up yet! It might be worth trying a dev board such as the nodemcu dev kit - or the limpkin one - at least these will have some quality control and you can contact the makers if you have problems.
If you or anyone else can offer ESP modules with quality control then how much premium would that attract? Perhaps some enterprising readers can start a little business buying and testing and then standing by these things?