gizwits board - anybody has one?

[tozett]

hi,
i purchased two (new?) boards, stacked pcbs. called "gizwits".

https://gregwareblog.wordpress.com/tag/gizwits/

i received them today, and considering to flash them.
but before i want to ask: anybody has this boards? and some hint/experience to share?

thanks a lot,
tozett

[Allycat1972]

Hi. Yep, got one. Flashed it with ESPEasy R105 and it's now monitoring my Washing Machine, Laundry room temperature and Soon to be monitoring the incoming water temperature and a flood contact!

Connected to Mosquitto MQTT broker and OpenHAB

Works well and easy to connect to a PSU with the USB port. I re-use the base other board to flash / program my other breakout board mounted ESP's. Better that wiring up a breadboard just for flashing.

Andy

[tozett]

Hey, thanks.
I try the same today. Does it run stable?
Switched from pure esp-modules to wemos. More stability...

[tozett]

flashed with r106, works stable and without hassle.
i have green flashing the RGB-led on wifi.
dead simple.
and the analog-port reports light intensity. great.

i tried the wiring and got RED light on gpio15,
green on GPIO 12, but i did not manage to get BLUE...any idea?

if it stays stable, cool thing. wifi led and light intesity on pcb...

[theone]

Hi. Yep, got one. Flashed it with ESPEasy R105 and it's now monitoring my Washing Machine, Laundry room temperature and Soon to be monitoring the incoming water temperature and a flood contact!

Connected to Mosquitto MQTT broker and OpenHAB

Works well and easy to connect to a PSU with the USB port. I re-use the base other board to flash / program my other breakout board mounted ESP's. Better that wiring up a breadboard just for flashing.

Andy

How did you compile it - What ESP8266 board type did you choose?
Does it matter?

[tozett]

i did it this way (screenshot)
choose to smalles RAM config, than after flashing check on the main page of the esp-easy firmware web-gui,
how much ram the module really has (mine was 4mb, but may differ?)

[tozett]

i am now using the LDR light sensor,
is slower than the lux-sensor, i have also, and it saves me a filter
(grafing is made with grafana, cool!)

[manjh]

Looks like a nice small footprint. I just ordered one to play with. Price on Ali has gone up: it is no longe $2,60... now $3,99!

Edit: when searching for Gizwit you donot find all offerings. I searched for "witty"which gives more sellers, including one for $2,90!

[Monosurround]

Hi, and sorry for hijacking this thread,

i have a problem with the board mentioned in the first post ( https://gregwareblog.wordpress.com/tag/gizwits/ )

I flashed ESP Easy R140 using the flsh.cmd or arduino, but i cant get it to work (normal node mcu works flawlessly ) but this board not.

When i hook it up to the serial monitor of the Arduino Ide i get the following:


ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,6)

wdt reset
load 0x4010f000, len 1384, room 16
tail 8
chksum 0x2d
csum 0x2d
v09826c6d
~ld
þªU
PID:4294967295
Version:-1
INIT : Incorrect PID or version!
RESET: Reboot count: 4
RESET: To many reset attempts
Entered Rescue mode!

DO i have to modify anything?

Sorry i'm quite new to this stuff.

[BertB]

I have 3 of these this boards, but also Wemos and NodeMCU.
The board is ok and works fine, as long as you do not need the analog input (it has the LDR connected to it).
Another 'problem' is that this board is a bit less sensitive to wifi signals, due to poor pcb layout under the antenna.

[Monosurround]

but i'm not apbled to use it after i flashed espeasy. i don't know what i should do. it doesn't bring a web interface up.

if i have flashed a node mcu it shows the following:

WIFI : Connected!
INIT : I2C
INIT : SPI not enabled
INIT : Boot OK
INIT : Cold Boot

and i can connect via the web interface.

but with the witty i don't seem to get there.

am i doning something wrong? or is the board broken? I have acctually two of them but they both show the same behaviour.

[BertB]

Per haps you are just too far away from the wifi ap. I have the same behaviorisme.

[Monosurround]

But with the message

INIT : Incorrect PID or version!
RESET: Reboot count: 4
RESET: To many reset attempts
Entered Rescue mode!

I believe that there is something wrong.
The AP is not far away

[BertB]

Are you sure power is ok?
If so, I think i'd try the oldest stable version First.

[harrisonbc]

I have a number of these working very well and stable.

Tonight I upgraded them to 140RC3 and had a couple of issues with stability and not getting an IP address (a few reboots helped)

I'm assuming it's the release of ESPeasy and will be fixed in the near future. You could try with release 120. (or just persevere)

Brynn

[tozett]

But with the message

INIT : Incorrect PID or version!

you should try to clear the flash.

this was described here in the forum three or four times as a solution ...
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1604&start=20&hilit=clear+flash

[timsson]

Are you sure power is ok?
If so, I think i'd try the oldest stable version First.

I had the same problem, it was only the power....