I have no answers for your questions. But I too am interested in support for the rotary encoder modules. I think that it would be great for providing a WiFi connected volume, temperature, or dimmer control. Have you actually started a fork to play around with any code yet? Please let me know if you ...

I am really glad that I discovered ESP Easy. I started out using the Windows flash tool to load R147rc8 on a NodeMCU board. That worked well with a DHT11 for our server room at work. So next I followed the great instructions, installed Platformio, and got the latest Mega code. So far, I have flashed...