Is it possible to use ESP8266's OTA capabilities?

[Anduril]

@tekka thanks for that info, I'm also using MySensors 2 beta but ESP lib 2.0 (as far as I know, corrently at work). I will check that later and test with updated ESP library.

[Anduril]

@tekka did you changed any of the standard settings for ESP flashing? I simply updated ESP8266 library and reflashed, but I get an reboot loop. In the serial monitor I see:

0‚~?–4“Ò¶£ÿOAaû0;255;3;0;9;Starting gateway (RNNGE-, 2.0.0-beta)
0;255;3;0;9;Radio init successful.
scandone
state: 0 -> 2 (b0)
state: 2 -> 3 (0)
state: 3 -> 5 (10)
add 0
aid 2
cnt 

connected with mDjEKlujYacByG5JtxlY, channel 1
ip:192.168.38.19,mask:255.255.255.0,gw:192.168.38.1
.IP: 192.168.38.19
¥üÊæ” ×Åü1¤ñþ0;255;3;0;9;Starting gateway (RNNGE-, 2.0.0-beta)
0;255;3;0;9;Radio init successful.
scandone
state: 0 -> 2 (b0)

When going back to 2.0.0 it works without problems. Here my settings for flashing:

[tekka]

@Anduril I'm using the NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module) settings / ESP 2.1.0 lib / and the latest MySensors dev (including PR#419 - there was indeed a rebooting issue before #419)...

[Anduril]

thanks a lot, working with newest dev build and ESP8266 lib version 2.1.0 as you said.

[tekka]

@Anduril excellent! Have fun :)

[Rasenheizung]

I'm trying to use the serial monitor but I'm always ask entering a password? Although I didn't used one?

Reflashing sketch via OTA worked without any issues.

Edit: Tried to use a real OTA password and it's still not working although I'm using the correct. ESP8266 Tools 2.2.0

[Anduril]

to my last knowledge this feature is implemented but not working. If you want to see the serial monitor you have to connect physically.

[NeverDie]

@Anduril

Regarding the bootloops: how you structure your code seems to have an effect. If you have busy-waits in your code, you're more likely to encounter the WDT timeout. I restructured my code to be more interrupt driven and to complete more frequent cycles through the main loop(). After doing that, the WDT timeouts stopped.

That said, I don't know whether your bootloop is caused by a WDT timeout or something else. At least in my case, the debug messages being printed in the serial window specifically mentioned WDT being involved.

[Mark Swift]

I presume debugging via network is not supported, I read some posts on Github but couldn't be sure if it was implemented?

[NeverDie]

@Mark-Swift

By debugging, do you mean looking at the serial console output over the network, or something else?

[Mark Swift]

@NeverDie said:

@Mark-Swift

By debugging, do you mean looking at the serial console output over the network, or something else?

Yes, serial monitor via network within IDE...

[mfalkvidd]

I haven't tried it yet but this plugin for serial monitor over network looks nice https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/1360