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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by StavrosK on Saturday November 28, 2015 @05:24AM (#10640686)
Man, I spent all day yesterday trying to reimplement the sensor for the ESP8266, as I thought it would be better to have it report over MQTT, but the damn thing keeps crashing in seconds. I literally cannot keep it working for more than a few seconds, no matter what I do.

I'm pretty disheartened, I'll try some more and either succeed or go back to an Arduino over serial... Do you have any experience with making it not crash?

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:02AM (#10640735)
Sadly, my ESP8266 experience is only about to start next week, I'm still abroad. But from the experiences of some of my friends, consider replacing the firmware on the ESP - some units were apparently sold with buggy one that made the module crash after short time.

Good luck!

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by StavrosK on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:12AM (#10640755)
Yeah, I've tried flashing the Arduino firmware (I think it gets flashed every time regardless). I'll keep trying and let you know, thanks!

By the way, if you don't want to keep checking the comments, you can follow me on Twitter at @stavros and experience my frustration first-hand. I'll be posting about it there.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:24AM (#10640779)
I'm using HN Notify, so I generally get replies straight to my inbox (except some weird bug once that made the service not work for me for like a month or two). But yeah, maybe Twitter is a better place to have real-time updates. Will be following. Thanks :).
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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by StavrosK on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:09PM (#10641997)
I just got it to run, yay! Things are going well, and MQTT functionality has been working well for the past hour. Just checking in :P
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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by TeMPOraL on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:29PM (#10643479)
Copy that!
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