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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by whatisthiseven on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:29AM (#24919091)
When I was working with an ESP8266 board I was really frustrated that the wifi stack was blocking. It meant I couldn't make a good user experience in the event that wifi was lost or at boot.

If that blob was open sourced, it would have been great to make changes to the wifi stack and make it truly async.

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by pantalaimon on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:17PM (#24921436)
You can run more than one thread.
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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by whatisthiseven on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:59PM (#24938333)
Your comment intrigued me as I hadn't found anything at the time to support this, however this unofficial library exists to try to solve my problem: https://github.com/bmellstrom/esp8266-arduino-threads

Many of the solutions I had found talked about cooperative multi-threading, which doesn't work if I can't make the wifi stack cooperate with me.

Maybe I can make my device run that much smoother during wifi drops now!

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