Bad Starting behaviour - needs info!

[moelski]

Hi devs,

today I struggled with a very problematic issue ... Actually I finish my Wifi Candle and just want to use a new unused NodeMCU board.
So far so well ... Flashing was ok but then there was no response for a period of time.

It was such a long time that I was thinking ... Damn these board is defected ...
Ok grab the next one ... Flashing ok ... no response ... What the hell is the problem ...
So just flashed a sample and that works out of the box.

Then I added some code ar the very first beginning of the ESPEasy Code:

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void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.print(F("\nSTARTING SYSTEM ..."));

And hey ... it´s working ...

So I looked at the next steps and it is

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fileSystemCheck();

I know you don´t like that part ... but anyway ... It´s very confusing if you don´t get any message while formatting the SPIFFS.
And it could take some time ...

If you take a closer look into fileSystemCheck there are only Loggings ... no Serial.Print statements ...
And the Log Level at that stage is 0 net even LOG_LEVEL_ERROR. But all statements in fileSystemCheck are LOG_LEVEL_INFO ..
So you won´t see anything for a very long time

Suggestions
1) Add a simple Starting statement like Serial.print(F("\nSTARTING SYSTEM ...")); after the Init of the serial port. So you get a notification that ESPEasy has started
2) Change the fileSystemCheck output to Serial.print. So you will see something on the hardware ...