I understand the need for a frozen version.
But if it's there and not thoroughly tested, users come with a bug report, and you have to point them to .... try the latest ...
If you offer a frozen version it needs to be good for (say) 90% of the community.
I remember a proud post from grovkillen .... running for 150 days! (on my disk: ESPEasy_mega-20180323 reported as 150 day stable.zip)
When I was lazy, I would choose that release.
A massive amount of testers is very useful/needed, as we can see now:
TDer sees hardly any problems in his test set-up.
The few (???) users of the latest releases do have problems ...
Searching for a pattern, I stopped a few days with upgrades.
My results:
Since 19-12-2018 evening counter reset:
No 14: 2 reboots mega-20181128 Wemos D1 mini batch 1 Jul 2017
No 18: 8 reboots mega-20181128 Wemos D1 mini batch 2 Febr 2018
No 19: 2 reboots ESP82xx Core 2.5.0-beta1 Wemos D1 mini batch 2
No 21:11 reboots mega-20181120 Wemos D1 mini batch 2
No 23: 6 reboots mega-20181128 Wemos D1 mini batch 3 Oct 2018
No 24: 3 reboots mega-20181128 Wemos D1 mini batch 3
No 28: 3 reboots mega-20181128 LOLIN D1 mini V3.1.0 batch 4 Nov 2018
All have strong (-60dB) to extreem strong (-35dB) RSSI
All have Wemos marking (looks as no clone), No 28 has the new LOLIN marking.
All running this configuration:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5955&p=32477#p32473
Power Supply: TSP-05 or HLK-PM01
with different plugged configurations of
- 0 or 2 DS18B20
- no PWM active
- No 18: with flow counter
For reference, ... running problem free:
#3
NodeMCU units with ESPEasy_v2.0.0-dev11 (July 2017!!) and a Rule for the 49 day reboot, are running trouble free with #8-12 DS18B20 sensors in the same WiFi network as today's tests. Up-time follows the 49 day Rule, and hardly any NAN on display.
My noob conclusion is that the improved performance/timing effort has had a bad influence on WiFi and DS18B20.
As I understood from the Github discussions, the DS18B20 timing is not obeyed (and it worked in the past due to slower performance..??).
For WiFi, I already suggested earlier: offer a temporarily switch back to 802.11 B/G, to rule out bad WiFi conditions.
Or ... is it Wemos ???
30+ ESP units for production and test. Ranging from control of heating equipment, flow sensing, floor temp sensing, energy calculation, floor thermostat, water usage, to an interactive "fun box" for my grandson. Mainly Wemos D1.