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by novalight
Fri May 11, 2018 8:30 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?
Replies: 18
Views: 25088

Re: Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?

@fly135 that's what I notice on the other plants, only few ms of ping. Regarding the WiFi environment: most of the (identical software and hardware) devices are installed in shielded distribution boxes alongside with the WiFi router. This is also why the RSSI is very strong. There are now other WiFi...
by novalight
Wed May 09, 2018 1:24 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?
Replies: 18
Views: 25088

Re: Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?

As this is still an issue for us I'd love if anyone could shed some light on how we can resolve this issue. I've set up on more crude test: I've connected the ESP32 to the WiFi-AP and a Raspberry PI to the same router via LAN. On the raspberry I have reasonable good connection and use it to establis...
by novalight
Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:10 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?
Replies: 18
Views: 25088

Wifi performance poor despite strong (-9) RSSI, how debug/diagnose?

Hello! We are working on a product (custom PCB, plain ESP32 IC) which does data logging in some remote electrical cabinets. At some facilities we noticed very poor connection quality (ESP32 takes long to obtain IP, HTTP(S) requests timeout etc., sometimes connection fails altogether) despite having ...
by novalight
Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:42 am
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: mbedTLS: automatically load appropriate cert from file-system
Replies: 5
Views: 9397

Re: mbedTLS: automatically load appropriate cert from file-system

Thank you for your replies so far! Root CA validation has not been an issue so far for us performance-wise. The problem is: for some of our services we cannot guarantee that server or root CA might change. (such as you don't do that also when you browse normal web pages) One additional thought: when...
by novalight
Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:59 pm
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: mbedTLS: automatically load appropriate cert from file-system
Replies: 5
Views: 9397

mbedTLS: automatically load appropriate cert from file-system

Use case: when I access a HTTPS site from my browser on my windows machine, I have a selection of trusted root certs and the remotes cert is validated automatically against these trusted certs. However in the ESP32 HTTPS examples it works differently: I have to provide upfront the correct server cer...
by novalight
Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:20 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 26MHz TCXO (not crystal) -- which pin to connect to?
Replies: 10
Views: 17922

Re: 26MHz TCXO (not crystal) -- which pin to connect to?

Angus, thanks for the information so far! We implemented now the 40 MHz TCXO on our prototype. It is always on (since it's not a battery powered application). For 32k we still use a simple 10 ppm external crystal. Everything is running fine so far. One additional question though: With the ECS-TXO-25...
by novalight
Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:26 pm
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: OTA-Update strategy (regarding IDF updates, bootloader etc.)
Replies: 4
Views: 6835

OTA-Update strategy (regarding IDF updates, bootloader etc.)

This concerns a topic we have been discussing internally for a while. Imagine you have hundreds of devices deployed in a remote place that can only be accessed by a technician about once per year. A few devices are available for local testing, some are installed in facilities that can be accessed wi...
by novalight
Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:27 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: SPI Memory selection
Replies: 9
Views: 22593

Re: SPI Memory selection

Since we are right now evaluating different options for our production. Basically we are looking for 8MB, 80MHz, 3.3V and QIO support. But we found that the market and the flash-support by ESP32 is a little bit non-obvious. Many chips are shown as EOL on Mouser or Digikey. It would really help if th...
by novalight
Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: esp32 compilation problems ?
Replies: 6
Views: 8369

Re: esp32 compilation problems ?

I have seen something similar when I share a project between Windows and Linux. Some things are compiled/linked differently. The solution in my case is to delete the build directory every time I switch the system. Could you maybe try that?
by novalight
Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:05 am
Forum: ESP-IDF
Topic: Won't reboot after spurious crash. "W (32) rtc_clk: Bogus XTAL frequency: 0 MHz"
Replies: 1
Views: 3762

Re: Won't reboot after spurious crash. "W (32) rtc_clk: Bogus XTAL frequency: 0 MHz"

FYI, since this bug looks quite serious to us (it prevents unattended operation of the device basically) I've created an issue on github:
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/1132