No ESP Easy connection to my other WiFi access points with same SSID

[TD-er]

At this moment ESPeasy does do a scan and selects the first from that scan result.
I was under the impression this list was sorted by signal strength, but apparently it isn't.

If you do a WiFi scan from within ESPeasy, is the list then sorted by signal strength? (that's one call that does set the sorting order)

[Methuselah]

Mine doesn't sort by signal strength, it sorts by channel:

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[astrastudio]

It looks to me like the sort is actually not a channel sort, multiple scans gave different results.
It looks more like completely random. But at least not ordered by signal strength.
The "ASIOT" is the network that the ESP should connect to, as you can see the unit has an ASIOT on 82:2A:A8:17:F1:CD with -32dBm, however it is connected to the really bad signal on 82:2A:A8:41:A1:EB which only has -92dBm.

[astrastudio]

If I scan again, here is the slightly different result.

[TD-er]

OK, so there should be some change on this.
Random selections is not what we want.

[badubo]

Hello,
is there any news in this topic, I have the same problem.
Thanks

[TD-er]

Not really an update on the wifi part yet.
I am working hard to get all the other glitches straightened first and I have some plans for the wifi which will allow to set more preferences for wifi and add flexibility.

[badubo]

Great,

thanks for the update and for your work

[jgrad]

any news on this topic?
I see that ESPeasy works very unreliable in environments where ESP has wifi signal from multiple access points with same SSID. Do somebody in community have simmilar experience and what is solution (beside not using same SSID on multiple AP).

[Ath]

TD-er has opened a PR #3473 to resolve exactly this issue (and a few more things). There are test-builds available, so you can participate bij helping test this issue.

[astrastudio]

any news on this topic?
I see that ESPeasy works very unreliable in environments where ESP has wifi signal from multiple access points with same SSID. Do somebody in community have simmilar experience and what is solution (beside not using same SSID on multiple AP).

My solution was to migrate all my ESP devices to Tasmota. Problem solved. Sad to see how such an essential problem is ignored/not fixed for multiple years.

[TD-er]

any news on this topic?
I see that ESPeasy works very unreliable in environments where ESP has wifi signal from multiple access points with same SSID. Do somebody in community have simmilar experience and what is solution (beside not using same SSID on multiple AP).

My solution was to migrate all my ESP devices to Tasmota. Problem solved. Sad to see how such an essential problem is ignored/not fixed for multiple years.

Sad to hear you switched to another platform.
But I disagree when you state the WiFi problems were ignored.
I've put over 1000h in working on WiFi related issues the last few years.

[astrastudio]

Sad to hear you switched to another platform.
But I disagree when you state the WiFi problems were ignored.
I've put over 1000h in working on WiFi related issues the last few years.

My perception was that nobody gave a status update for over two years and it looked like nobody cared.
The reality might be different. But that thread never received any updates since 2018, until today.
My biggest problem was: I have many ESPs in places where I can't press the reset button every other day because the ESP-Easy lost WIFI and didn't reconnect so I tried something else.
Sorry for that. I really loved what you created with ESP-Easy, but a FW that is incapable of (re-)connecting to the strongest BSSID doesn't work for me
I might change back once that issue is fixed.

[TD-er]

Well you can check the test build I made with this PR, I'm working on
https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/pull/3473
It is a test build, so don't install on units plastered away in a wall.

[RaBa]

I had the same problems in my WiFi Mesh.
But I could fix it (quick and dirty) by changing line #29 in the file RTCStruct.cpp from

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return lastBSSID[0] != 0 && lastWiFiChannel != 0 && lastWiFiSettingsIndex != 0;

to

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return(0);

Now ESPeasy is switching from one AP (RSSI -65) to another AP (RSSI -84) from time to time, but the connection keeps stable.
I don't know why ESPeasy is chosing the weaker AP most of the time.

[TD-er]

So I should make it a setting then to allow to store the last known WiFi information in RTC memory....
It seems like it is rather counter productive now, unless you wake from deepsleep.

[Rini52]

I also was struggling with wifi conection the last two weeks. My mesh setup with 3 aps mestup the espeasy connections. Numours reflashes and erase flashes were needed to get my esp8266 reconnected only to find out that after a power cut the whole thing need to be repeated to get the strongest AP. I give up and also switched to tasmoto as mentioned in this thread.
I hope someone with the right knowledge will get ESPeasy a good platform again otherwise it will be domed with all the. Mesh ap installations today..

[Rini52]

I just found out that also the tasmota setup has problems with my ASUS router (RT-AX92U). And I wondered if this has to do with the wifi settings of this mesh router. I found a google on sonof sound setups (they use esp8266) and they suggested to switch off the QoS services. I switched it on (because mine was disabled) this caused the router to reboot and all my esp8266 connected again. Also after power cycling the esp8266 connected ok. More digging revealed that it also has to do with the WMM settings of Wifi, which is apperently a kind of QoS for media streams. Therefore the next days I will play around with it to see if I can keep ESPEasy connected to this ASUS (AX92U) system. Keep you posted and hopefully the wifi guys of ESPEasy could give some comments.....

[TD-er]

That sounds promising.
Keep me updated.

I just connected a module sent to me by Tebogo and when connecting it to my TP-link Omada (set using the same SSID) I also got the same issue as he has reported over and over again.
So I guess there may also be some component here related to the module itself.

[Rini52]

No luck. The ESP8266 (nodemcu) modules disconnecte4d after 1.5 days. They were not able to reconnect. Only power recycling in combination of switching the wmm settings seems to allow the ESPs to reconnect to wifi. I also found out that it connected to the weakest (-68 db) ASUS AP (RT-AX92U). The strange thing is that when you look in the router connect list, the ESP is connected but you can't ping or connect to it. So a bad luck for the guys with home appliances with esp8266 in combination with ASUS mesh routers. (or maybe other mesh systems) . I remember from weeks ago when I sketched via Arduino IDE my own connection i had to build in a reboot call to reconnect in case of a disconnect. Therefore it looks to me that there is defiantly something wrong with the combination of ESP8266 and ASUS mesh systems. So i will try to find my old sketch and see how stable that will be. Hope that someone can find a solution. Keep you posted when i have news on from my old sketch.....

[Rini52]

this is really an awkward problem. The only way to get a esp8266 working (from my sketchbook in arduino ) with this ASUS (AX92U) router is going back to esp8266 community version 2.5.2 !!!!!!
This means i have to build ESPEasy myself with this library I assume. My experience with building is next to nothing so this will take a long time if it will be possible with this old lib at all. There is a long discussion about similar problems with Asus on internet going back 2 years. Therefore someone one with the right knowledge must be able to force this company to do something about it. Also the ESP8266 firmware is maybe to blame. I have enough of this and will find a quick solution for my esps and forced to look for a replacement of the ASUS routers. This is really bad ......

[TD-er]

Does this Asus router/AP allow to add a separate SSID?
One that's not part of a mesh, but just a single SSID.

If you are looking for a really cheap and remarkable AP, which does work perfectly with ESPEasy (as I'm using them everywhere), have a look at the MikroTik access points.
The cheap ones aren't the fastest ones, but for creating a separate WLAN for your ESP nodes they are perfect.

For example the mAP lite ( https://mikrotik.com/product/RBmAPL-2nD ) or CAP lite ( https://mikrotik.com/product/RBcAPL-2nD-307 )
Those can be had for roughly 25 euro and the mAP lite is really small and can even be powered over PoE if you have that available (or just USB)

[Ath]

My TP-Link DECO M9 Plus config tool suggests that there is a 'Quick Roaming option' available for this mesh-AP (I'm using 4 of them), but that it could cause issues with 'older WiFi equipment'. The option is switched off by default (and that's how I kept it), but I will try to turn it on and see what still goes in a couple of days.
Possibly you could improve things by trying to switch off a similar feature in your Asus router, if available?

[Rini52]

Thanks for the suggestions. Currently I have a running ESPEasy (latest ESP_Easy_mega_20210503_energy_ESP8266_4M1M) after I first flashed the arduino(2.5.2) and flash it over with the ESPEasy firmware. In addition I blocked the mac address on the 5GHZ WiFi radios and set the ESP8266 on a static IP address. Now i'm able to power cycle and connect it to the Router. Unfortunately when the weakest AP is selected (that happens a lot?) it is moved to the stronger AP after sometime and loose connection. Power cycling works then to connect it again and it keeps the stronger AP. . My arduino sketch (pulse counting with MQTT server) is nearly finished (including an ESP.restart) and hopefully that allow for a stable setup.
I had a look at the router(AX92U) there is no option "quick roaming" so that won't help. Setting up another router maybe the only option, but if I do a wifi scan, I see that there are already a lot AP's around adding another one to the already high noise levels is not a thing you want to do I guess.
best regards..

[Rini52]

Just to play safe I ordered the mAP lite. Looks like a nice toy....

[TD-er]

Just to play safe I ordered the mAP lite. Looks like a nice toy....

Which reminds me I should post the settings to turn it into a standard bridge in the documentation.
It isn't hard if you once done it, but the Mikrotik firmware is so extremely versatile, all the settings can be a bit overwhelming at first.

At least their (Android) App is quite simple to help setup it for the first time.

[Rini52]

Td

I received the Mikro mAP lite router. Very nice little thing!. I set it in brigde mode using thsi youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2RTfaN5KYk.
You can run the RouterOS Winbox (exe) in Wine and it worked in one go. So I can start experimenting with the ESP's connection.....

Thanks.

[Rini52]

TD

The connection to the mAP lite worked okay over the past few days. I had the fall back to the (mesh) ASUS router and once connected to it there is no way to get it back to the Map bridge. Only power cycling and wait for 10mins and than the mAp is selected again. So one SSID (no mesh) is the solution. In the mean time a came across https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_ ... /README.md and flashed it on my ESP8266 and in "AUTOMESH" the esp8266 was connecting to the (mesh)ASUS router without any problem and became a mesh node in that network. So what needs to be checked out is why this works and implement it in the ESPEasy when the network is a mesh variant....
I don't have that knowedlge and I guess it's easier said than done????

[TD-er]

Well, I've spent all day today working out other WiFi reconnect issues.
I don't think it is solely the "mesh" that's causing issues here.

[Rini52]

TD

thanks for your reply. I hope you found the real reason. Today i recompiled the ESPEasy mega from the git in Arduino-ide. Appart from a typo in one of the helper.ccp files it went okay. (i was surprised since my knowledge of this stuff is low). I used the newest esp8266 community (3.0.1) library and it connected to the mAP lite, However after sometime it gets disconnects (Disconnected! Reason: '(8) Assoc leave' Connected for 1 m 28 s). Static ip don',t help. While the other esp8266 (same make) with your ESP_Easy_mega_20210503_energy_ESP8266_4M1M build runs like clockwork. No problems with this mAP lite. So hope this helps you somehow......

[mrwee]

Well, I've spent all day today working out other WiFi reconnect issues.
I don't think it is solely the "mesh" that's causing issues here.

It's not limited to mesh Wi-Fi only. I'm running on a Ubiquity network with several AP's, and often see ESPEasy jumping from a good AP to a AP with much worse RSSI or ESPEasy never selecting the closest & strongest AP.
If you need me to test recent fixes, I'd be happy to

[TD-er]

The core 3.0.1 is not yet working fine.
I have a pending PR to support core 3.0.1, but it is a bit unpredictable right now as it may work fine on one build and immediately crash on a next build.
That's the reason I have not yet merged this PR.

The changes for WiFi are in this pending PR and it is also being tested by another user.
https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/pull/3702

[Rini52]

Td

I build a custom flash using the source form the git hub removed some sensors and controllers and used the ESP8266 board version 3.0.1 of Arduino-IDE. I put the Wifi to b/g only and reconnect on lost wifi connection. The biggest stability gain(no disconnects) came from removing the regular Wifi-scan. Now i can switch between mAP lite bridge and the (mesh) Asus router with a simple reboot. I will leave it running for the next few days and see what happens. Hope this gives you some hooks ....

[Rini52]

Td

Thanks for sharing. I also did set the "do not start AP" setting. As you suggested. My wifi signals are way higher compared to sgtester but It seems to work ok now ...

My settings are below:

Force WiFi B/G: true
Restart WiFi Lost Conn: true
Force WiFi No Sleep: true
Periodical send Gratuitous ARP: false
Connection Failure Threshold: 0
Max WiFi TX Power: 17.50
Current WiFi TX Power: 0.00
WiFi Sensitivity Margin: 3
Send With Max TX Power: false
Extra WiFi scan loops: 0
Periodical Scan WiFi: false
Use Last Connected AP from RTC: false
Firmware
Build:⋄ 20114 - Mega
System Libraries:⋄ ESP82xx Core 3.0.1, NONOS SDK 2.2.2-dev(38a443e), LWIP: 2.1.2
Git Build:⋄ My Build: Jul 13 2021 20:13:54
Plugin Count:⋄ 16 [Normal]
Build Origin: Self built
Build Time:⋄ Jul 13 2021 20:13:47
Binary Filename:⋄ firmware.bin
Build Platform:⋄
Git HEAD:⋄

[TD-er]

The "periodical scan WiFi" is now set to default disabled as it caused quite a lot of issues for some.
I think I may even remove it.

[Rini52]

TD

I tested your newest build ESP_Easy_mega_20210615_energy_ESP8266_4M1M and my own build with core 3.0.1 (both based on 20114-mega). In both cases the periodic wifi scan was switched off and the new option "do not start AP" was switched on. The results sofar are great. No sudden disconnects anymore, but note that I have strong wifi signals.
The primary wifi is SSID of mAP lite and the fallback is set to my mesh ASUS.

I tested several situations:
1) Remove TCP connection behind the router (testing pings etc) but WIFI radio signal stays on.
Result both reconnected to MQTT without any problem. => So OK
2) Both were connected to the single wifi (mAP-lite) and I switched the wifi radio off.
Result: both builds connected to my mesh ASUS router with no problems : =>So OK
Also warm reboot went OK.
3) Switched the mAP lite wifi radio on again and warm rebooted them:
Result both connected back to the mesh ASUS router. Not to the primary mAP lite. (for me this is ok)
What I noticed is that your build (20210615) was checking things, because the webserver was inaccessible for a while.
But finally was connected to the ASUS OK.
4) Now I power cycled them (cold reboot).
Result both connected to ASUS if you do it quickly (< 1 min).
When you wait a liitle longer (> 3 min?) they connect to the Primary mAP lite again.

Pretty impressive results, compared to the original results and disconnects.

Therefore it looks that indeed the Wifi scanning is interfering with running stable connections and prohibits reconnecting correctly.
Your suggestion to remove it looks tempting. But I don't know how that works out in low level Wifi radio with high noise levels.

Hope above helps you in your evaluations. And many thanks for the your info and hard work to get things going again.

[TD-er]

Today I did merge the WiFi reconnect code, so would be great if you could test a build based on the current 'mega' branch.
I will also rebase it into the core 3.0.0 PR, but that's not yet done.

I did notice there were still some issues with the WiFi scan.
In some situations you could get a callback to the "wifi scan done" function, before it was actually done scanning.
So that's fixed in the latest code too.

Edit:
Rebased it into the 'core 3.0.0' PR too. (I expected merge conflicts, but apparently there were none)

[Rini52]

TD

I loaded pulled the 3705 branch from the git and put the libs etc in to the Arduino-IDE and compiled it with Arduino. One warning for "L-Cristals" encounterd. I don't use it and I used core 3.0.1. Perhaps related? All went oke. Rebooting and switching. Indeed you get an error message about the scan but that was to be expected. What surprised me was: I made an connect error with the MQTT server and the WD messages was reporting higher fails(see list below) . After it was connected correctly the number of fails are going down and the error messages disappear....?
Maybe some interference here...

Below list of serial port and settings used:


--> serial log
17:53:51.219 -> 212006 : Info : WD : Uptime 4 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23720 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:53:51.219 -> 212008 : Error : WiFi : Scan not needed, good candidate present
17:54:21.228 -> 242006 : Info : WD : Uptime 4 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23152 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:54:21.228 -> 242007 : Error : WiFi : Scan not needed, good candidate present
17:54:51.201 -> 272006 : Info : WD : Uptime 5 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23152 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:54:51.234 -> 272007 : Error : WiFi : Scan not needed, good candidate present
17:55:21.233 -> 302006 : Info : WD : Uptime 5 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23152 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:55:21.233 -> 302007 : Error : WiFi : Scan not needed, good candidate present
17:55:51.227 -> 332006 : Info : WD : Uptime 6 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23552 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:55:51.227 -> 332008 : Info : WiFi : Start network scan all channels
17:55:52.819 -> 333607 : Info : WiFi : Scan finished, found: 5
17:56:21.215 -> 362006 : Info : WD : Uptime 6 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 24168 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
-------Connection error with MQTT broker ---------------
17:56:51.206 -> 392006 : Info : WD : Uptime 7 ConnectFailures 0 FreeMem 23784 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:58:43.263 -> 504057 : Error : MQTT : Broker C002 connection failed (15/0)
17:58:44.291 -> 505077 : Error : MQTT : Broker C002 connection failed (16/0)
17:58:45.286 -> 506057 : Error : MQTT : Broker C002 connection failed (17/0)
17:58:46.281 -> 507060 : Error : MQTT : Broker C002 connection failed (18/0)
17:58:47.276 -> 508060 : Error : MQTT : Broker C002 connection failed (19/0)
17:58:48.106 -> 508879 : Info : MQTT : Connected to broker with client ID: MyESP_Easy_2_2
17:58:48.106 -> 508881 : Info : Subscribed to: domoticz/out
17:58:51.224 -> 512006 : Info : WD : Uptime 9 ConnectFailures 17 FreeMem 21744 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
17:59:21.238 -> 542006 : Info : WD : Uptime 9 ConnectFailures 17 FreeMem 21744 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init


18:01:21.230 -> 662006 : Info : WD : Uptime 11 ConnectFailures 17 FreeMem 22896 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
18:01:21.263 -> 662007 : Info : WiFi : Start network scan all channels
18:01:22.822 -> 663607 : Info : WiFi : Scan finished, found: 5
18:01:51.226 -> 692006 : Info : WD : Uptime 12 ConnectFailures 16 FreeMem 22896 WiFiStatus WL_CONNECTED 3 ESPeasy internal wifi status: Conn. IP Init
----< end log

----> settings

Configured SSID1: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK
Configured SSID2: Wifi_147@RT_ASU
STA MAC: 48:3F:DA:A4:xx:xx
AP MAC: 4A:3F:DA:A4:xx:xx
WiFi Settings
Force WiFi B/G: false
Restart WiFi Lost Conn: true
Force WiFi No Sleep: true
Periodical send Gratuitous ARP: false
Connection Failure Threshold: 0
Max WiFi TX Power: 17.50
Current WiFi TX Power: 0.00
WiFi Sensitivity Margin: 3
Send With Max TX Power: false
Extra WiFi scan loops: 0
Periodical Scan WiFi: true
Use Last Connected AP from RTC: false
Firmware
Build:⋄ 20114 - Mega
System Libraries:⋄ ESP82xx Core 3.0.1, NONOS SDK 2.2.2-dev(38a443e), LWIP: 2.1.2
Git Build:⋄ My Build: Jul 18 2021 13:08:09
Plugin Count:⋄ 16 [Normal]
Build Origin: Self built
Build Time:⋄ Jul 18 2021 13:08:02
Binary Filename:⋄ firmware.bin
Build Platform:⋄ unknown
Git HEAD:⋄
System Status
Syslog Log Level: None
Serial Log Level: Info
Web Log Level: None
Network Services
Network Connected: ✔
NTP Initialized: ✔
MQTT Client Connected: ✔
ESP Board
ESP Chip ID: 10760502 (0xA43136)
ESP Chip Frequency: 80 MHz
ESP Chip Model: ESP8266
ESP Chip Cores: 1
ESP Board Name: ESP8266_NODEMCU_ESP12E

[Rini52]

TD

Today i copied the new mega-20210802 github code to my local arduine-ide settings and recompiled the code. After two compile error corrections Its running okay. Many thanks for the WIFI stabilization and the "MQTT quote" correction from Ton. below my input. Don't how how to get it in the Github for review/correction..


1) The ConfigPage.cpp file

out-commented line 134. It was not found by the compiler...

addFormHeader(F("Main Settings"));

Settings.Name[25] = 0;
SecuritySettings.Password[25] = 0;
addFormTextBox(F("Unit Name"), F("name"), Settings.Name, 25);
// addFormNote(String(F("Hostname: ")) + NetworkCreateRFCCompliantHostname()); <----- line 134 removed.....
addFormNumericBox(F("Unit Number"), F("unit"), Settings.Unit, 0, UNIT_NUMBER_MAX);
addFormCheckBox(F("Append Unit Number to hostname"), F("appendunittohostname"), Settings.appendUnitToHostname());
addFormPasswordBox(F("Admin Password"), F("password"), SecuritySettings.Password, 25);

addFormSubHeader(F("Wifi Settings"));



2) The update reported before in file _CPlugin_Helper.cpp was not in the new mega 20210802.

// Add request header as fall back.
// When adding another "accept" header, it may be interpreted as:
// "if you have XXX, send it; or failing that, just give me what you've got."
http.addHeader(F("Accept"), F("*/*;q=0.1"));

delay(0);
#if defined(CORE_POST_2_6_0) || defined(ESP32)
http.begin(client, host, port, uri, false); // HTTP
#else
http.begin(client, host, port, uri); <--- line 531 "client" update
#endif




my settings:

System Info Copy info to clipboard (⋄)
Unit Number: 2
Local Time: 2021-08-07 20:25:14
Time Source: NTP
Uptime: 0 days 0 hours 50 minutes
Load: 13.50% (LC=1156)
CPU Eco Mode: false
Boot: Cold Boot (0)
Reset Reason: External System
Last Action before Reboot: Background Task
SW WD count: 0


Memory

Free RAM: 20080
Heap Max Free Block: 18104
Heap Fragmentation: 10%
Free Stack: 3648


Network

IP Config: Static
IP / Subnet: 192.168.50.9 / 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.50.1
Client IP: 192.168.50.101
DNS: 192.168.50.1 / (IP unset)
Allowed IP Range: 192.168.50.0 - 192.168.50.255
Connected: 50 m 22 s
Number Reconnects: 0


WiFi <http://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/Wifi>

WiFi Connection: 802.11n (RSSI -43 dBm)
SSID: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK (08:55:31:xxxxxxx)
Channel: 9
Encryption Type: WPA2/PSK
Last Disconnect Reason: (1) Unspecified
Configured SSID1: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK
Configured SSID2: Wifi_147@RT_ASU
STA MAC: 48:3F:DA:xxxxxxx
AP MAC: 4A:3F:DA:xxxxxxx


WiFi Settings

Force WiFi B/G: false
Restart WiFi Lost Conn: true
Force WiFi No Sleep: true
Periodical send Gratuitous ARP: false
Connection Failure Threshold: 0
Max WiFi TX Power: 17.50
Current WiFi TX Power: 0.00
WiFi Sensitivity Margin: 3
Send With Max TX Power: false
Extra WiFi scan loops: 0
Periodical Scan WiFi: true
Use Last Connected AP from RTC: false


Firmware

Build:⋄ 20114 - Mega
System Libraries:⋄ ESP82xx Core 3.0.2, NONOS SDK 2.2.2-dev(38a443e),
LWIP: 2.1.2
Git Build:⋄ My Build: Aug 7 2021 19:12:42
Plugin Count:⋄ 16 [Normal]
Build Origin: Self built
Build Time:⋄ Aug 7 2021 19:12:35
Binary Filename:⋄ firmware.bin
Build Platform:⋄
Git HEAD:⋄


System Status

Syslog Log Level: None
Serial Log Level: Info
Web Log Level: None


Network Services

Network Connected: ✔
NTP Initialized: ✔
MQTT Client Connected: ✔


ESP Board

ESP Chip ID: 10760502 (0xA43136)
ESP Chip Frequency: 80 MHz
ESP Chip Model: ESP8266
ESP Chip Cores: 1
ESP Board Name: ESP8266_NODEMCU_ESP12E


Storage

Flash Chip ID: Vendor: 0xD8 Device: 0x4016
Flash Chip Real Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Speed: 40 MHz
Flash IDE Mode: DIO
Flash Writes: 26 daily / 36 boot
Sketch Size: 780 kB (2288 kB free)
Max. OTA Sketch Size: 1019 kB (1044464 bytes)
OTA possible: true
OTA 2-step Needed: false
SPIFFS Size: 934 kB (843 kB free)
Page size: 256
Block size: 8192
Number of blocks: 116
Maximum open files: 5
Maximum path length: 32


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Build: firmware.bin Aug 7 2021
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[TD-er]

Hmm have to get back to it tomorrow. Can't mark it unread on the forum, so hope I won't forget.

[TD-er]

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#if defined(CORE_POST_2_6_0) || defined(ESP32)
http.begin(client, host, port, uri, false); // HTTP
#else
http.begin(client, host, port, uri); <--- line 531 "client" update
#endif

Why is this needed?
You aren''t compiling it with all flags set as they are set by all the configuration scripts in PlatformIO.

If this is not being compiled as it should, then other parts may also use the wrong code.

[Rini52]

Td

I did follow your WIKI for Arduino. No extra flags are mentioned, or maybe I missed something? Anyway the home build code is running okay with the above mentioned adjustments.
Platformio is jet another tool to learn. I went through numerous tools/platforms in my life, mainly Linux based. For the time being the "local" Arduino is clear and oke for me.

Regards,
Rini

[TD-er]

With "wiki" you mean "read the docs", right?
https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/lates ... rduino-ide

Especially building using Custom.h

Can you also test with a build we made to make sure your WiFi is also present in those builds?
Otherwise we've no clue where to start looking.

[Ath]

I went through numerous tools/platforms in my life, mainly Linux based. For the time being the "local" Arduino is clear and oke for me.

In that case: Please have a look at the VSCode/PlatformIO combo, it is way more modern, capable and usable than the, IMHO, rather ancient ArduinoIDE (it feels like '90s software, instead of 21st century). And you don't have to rename the source folder to ESPEasy, just to have it compile ESPEasy.ino
I keep suggesting to make this the default (and only) supported development environment for ESPEasy

NB: I'm born in the (early) 60s, and have used all kinds of development tooling in my 35+ years of being a developer, sometimes even the infamous 'edlin' MS-Dos editor and while I had some initial aversion against the then only json-editable configuration of VSCode, since about 2 years it replaced everything except specialized IDE's like Visual Studio (for C# development), Eclipse (for Java development) and Delphi (for, well, Delphi development). It really is the best thing since sliced bread (for an editor, of course ).

[Rini52]

Ton & TD

I installed atom/platformio and after a lot of warnings and error messages it uploaded the code and preserved the rules on the esp8266. It is running the custom build by leaving the Custom.h file (from Arduino) in the clone directory. After 45+ years going from assembler-code/pdo/vax/od 6-bit operating systems/unix(linux) (algol/fortran/cobol/C ..... you name it , I still prefer command type of input, at least you know what your dealing with... Anyway vscode is a problem apparently in linux, therfore i used the atom/platform.... Below the setting page of the code generated. it seems to have done the trick,but it was very unclear what had happend in the generation....

Regards,
Rini




ESP Easy Mega: MyESP_Easy


⌂Main <http://192.168.50.9/>⚙Config
<http://192.168.50.9/config>💬Controllers
<http://192.168.50.9/controllers>📌Hardware
<http://192.168.50.9/hardware>🔌Devices
<http://192.168.50.9/devices>⧴Rules
<http://192.168.50.9/rules>✉Notifications
<http://192.168.50.9/notifications>🔧Tools <http://192.168.50.9/tools>

System Info Copy info to clipboard (⋄)
Unit Number: 2
Local Time: 2021-08-08 18:04:53
Time Source: NTP
Uptime: 0 days 0 hours 43 minutes
Load: 12.27% (LC=1216)
CPU Eco Mode: false
Boot: Cold Boot (0)
Reset Reason: External System
Last Action before Reboot: Background Task
SW WD count: 0


Memory

Free RAM: 16368
Heap Max Free Block: 13136
Heap Fragmentation: 20%
Free Stack: 3664


Network

IP Config: Static
IP / Subnet: 192.168.50.9 / 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.50.1
Client IP: 192.168.50.101
DNS: 192.168.50.1 / (IP unset)
Allowed IP Range: 192.168.50.0 - 192.168.50.255
Connected: 42 m 20 s
Number Reconnects: 0


WiFi <http://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/Wifi>

WiFi Connection: 802.11n (RSSI -44 dBm)
SSID: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK (xxxxxxxxxxx)
Channel: 9
Encryption Type: WPA2/PSK
Last Disconnect Reason: (8) Assoc leave
Configured SSID1: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK
Configured SSID2: Wifi_147@RT_ASU
STA MAC: 48:3F:DA:xxxxxxx
AP MAC: 4A:3F:DA:xxxxxxx


WiFi Settings

Force WiFi B/G: false
Restart WiFi Lost Conn: true
Force WiFi No Sleep: true
Periodical send Gratuitous ARP: false
Connection Failure Threshold: 0
Max WiFi TX Power: 17.50
Current WiFi TX Power: 0.00
WiFi Sensitivity Margin: 3
Send With Max TX Power: false
Extra WiFi scan loops: 0
Periodical Scan WiFi: true
Use Last Connected AP from RTC: false


Firmware

Build:⋄ 20114 - Mega
System Libraries:⋄ ESP82xx Core 2843a5ac, NONOS SDK 2.2.2-dev(38a443e),
LWIP: 2.1.2 PUYA support
Git Build:⋄ My Build: Aug 8 2021 17:13:11
Plugin Count:⋄ 16
Build Origin: Self built
Build Time:⋄ Aug 8 2021 17:13:06
Binary Filename:⋄ ESP_Easy_mega_20210808_custom_ESP8266_4M1M
Build Platform:⋄ Linux-5.4.0-80-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
Git HEAD:⋄ pygit2_not_installed


System Status

Syslog Log Level: None
Serial Log Level: Info
Web Log Level: None


Network Services

Network Connected: ✔
NTP Initialized: ✔
MQTT Client Connected: ✔


ESP Board

ESP Chip ID: 10760502 (0xA43136)
ESP Chip Frequency: 80 MHz
ESP Chip Model: ESP8266
ESP Chip Cores: 1
ESP Board Name: PLATFORMIO_ESP12E


Storage

Flash Chip ID: Vendor: 0xD8 Device: 0x4016
Flash Chip Real Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Speed: 40 MHz
Flash IDE Mode: DOUT
Flash Writes: 0 daily / 0 boot
Sketch Size: 750 kB (2320 kB free)
Max. OTA Sketch Size: 1019 kB (1044464 bytes)
OTA possible: true
OTA 2-step Needed: false
SPIFFS Size: 934 kB (843 kB free)
Page size: 256
Block size: 8192
Number of blocks: 116
Maximum open files: 5
Maximum path length: 32


Powered by Let's Control It <http://www.letscontrolit.com/>
community
Build: ESP_Easy_mega_20210808_custom_ESP8266_4M1M Aug 8 2021
<https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/releases>

[TD-er]

You can still build it using command line if you like.
See the build script in the tools directory.

The command like stuff for building using PlatformIO is quite simple:
- activate Python virtual env. (see build script in the tools directory how it is created)
- run "pio run -e <your env name>"

See the defined environments with "custom" in the name to pick your desired custom env (e.g. for ESP32 or ESP8266)
The most flexible way of building your own custom build is to rename the src/Custom-sample.h to src/Custom.h (mind the capital C)
And of course uncomment whatever controller or plugin you need.
If there is no src/Custom.h file is not present, the Python scripts in tools/pio are used to define the selections for the Custom builds.

[Rini52]

Td,

Thanks for your "tool" tip. I overlooked that one. In the mean time I have the vscode working for platformio.(had to remove some conflicts in my linux setup). I must admit that the compilation is a lot faster then with Arduino-ide. The custom.h file is also working. I see that you are using an older esp core than i was using (my orginal build used 3.0.1 or 3.0.2.). Therefore I assume you will encounter the cplugin_helper problem if you switch over to a newer version of esp8266 core. Again many thanks for the feetback.

[TD-er]

See also this PR: https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/pull/3680
It is about the core 3.0.x to make it to build.
You can build a specific PR by using the -p flag along with the build script.
e.g. "-p 3680" for building that PR.

The PR will also allow a very nice new feature of core 3.0.0 where I can use 2 stacks on ESP8266.
Building the "beta" envs based on core 3.0.x will give you this new feature.

[Rini52]

TD

Back in august I build a custom build for the Esp-easy. It now runs for 129 days with more than 308 reconnects. So in the end it turned out to work as a very reliable build for the mesh Asus router. see build below.

Regards
Rini

--->

ESP Easy Mega: MyESP_Easy


⌂Main <http://192.168.50.7/>⚙Config
<http://192.168.50.7/config>💬Controllers
<http://192.168.50.7/controllers>📌Hardware
<http://192.168.50.7/hardware>🔌Devices
<http://192.168.50.7/devices>⧴Rules
<http://192.168.50.7/rules>✉Notifications
<http://192.168.50.7/notifications>🔧Tools <http://192.168.50.7/tools>

System Info Copy info to clipboard (⋄)
Unit Number: 3
Local Time: 2022-01-08 12:55:31
Time Source: NTP
Time Wander: -0.002 [msec/sec]
Uptime: 129 days 2 hours 43 minutes
Load: 10.29% (LC=1694)
CPU Eco Mode: false
Boot: Soft Reboot (2)
Reset Reason: Software/System restart
Last Action before Reboot: Intended Reboot: timer, id: 5
SW WD count: 0


Memory

Free RAM: 11296
Heap Max Free Block: 7968
Heap Fragmentation: 29%
Free Stack: 3664


Network

IP Config: Static
IP / Subnet: 192.168.50.7 / 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.50.1
Client IP: 192.168.50.115
DNS: 192.168.50.1 / (IP unset)
Allowed IP Range: 192.168.50.0 - 192.168.50.255
Connected: 1d19h29m
Number Reconnects: 309


WiFi <http://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/Wifi>

WiFi Connection: 802.11n (RSSI -58 dBm)
SSID: Wifi_147@RT_ASU (04:D9:F5:xxxxxxxx)
Channel: 7
Encryption Type: WPA2/PSK
Last Disconnect Reason: (8) Assoc leave
Configured SSID1: Wifi_147@RT_ASU
Configured SSID2: Wifi_LoT@RT_MIK
STA MAC: 8C:AA:xxxxxxxxxxx
AP MAC: 8E:AA:xxxxxxxxxxx


WiFi Settings

Force WiFi B/G: false
Restart WiFi Lost Conn: true
Force WiFi No Sleep: true
Periodical send Gratuitous ARP: true
Connection Failure Threshold: 0
Max WiFi TX Power: 17.50
Current WiFi TX Power: 8.00
WiFi Sensitivity Margin: 3
Send With Max TX Power: false
Extra WiFi scan loops: 1
Periodical Scan WiFi: false
Use Last Connected AP from RTC: false


Firmware

Build:⋄ 20114 - Mega
System Libraries:⋄ ESP82xx Core 2843a5ac, NONOS SDK 2.2.2-dev(38a443e),
LWIP: 2.1.2 PUYA support
Git Build:⋄ My Build: Aug 26 2021 15:29:55
Plugin Count:⋄ 16
Build Origin: Self built
Build Time:⋄ Aug 26 2021 15:29:51
Binary Filename:⋄ ESP_Easy_mega_20210826_custom_ESP8266_4M1M
Build Platform:⋄ Linux-5.4.0-81-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29
Git HEAD:⋄ pygit2_not_installed


System Status

Syslog Log Level: None
Serial Log Level: Info
Web Log Level: Info


Network Services

Network Connected: ✔
NTP Initialized: ✔
MQTT Client Connected: ✔


ESP Board

ESP Chip ID: 925162 (0xE1DEA)
ESP Chip Frequency: 80 MHz
ESP Chip Model: ESP8266
ESP Chip Cores: 1
ESP Board Name: PLATFORMIO_ESP12E


Storage

Flash Chip ID: Vendor: 0x20 Device: 0x4016
Flash Chip Real Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Size: 4096 kB
Flash IDE Speed: 40 MHz
Flash IDE Mode: DIO
Flash Writes: 0 daily / 12 boot
Sketch Size: 751 kB (2320 kB free)
Max. OTA Sketch Size: 1019 kB (1044464 bytes)
OTA possible: true
OTA 2-step Needed: false
SPIFFS Size: 934 kB (843 kB free)
Page size: 256
Block size: 8192
Number of blocks: 116
Maximum open files: 5
Maximum path length: 32


Powered by Let's Control It <http://www.letscontrolit.com/>
community
Build: ESP_Easy_mega_20210826_custom_ESP8266_4M1M Aug 26
2021 <https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/releases>

[TD-er]

Just to be sure, this was not based on the PR I mentioned in my last reply in this thread?