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Digistump / Oak dead ?
dynek:
Hello guys,
I am wondering what's the status of Digistump?
Cause I backed the Oak long time ago, never used them and started giving it a shot yesterday evening:
- This website (forum) doesn't redirect to https when reached via http - that's pretty odd in 2019
- The website to kickstart the oak doesn't work: http://digistu.mp/oakconfig
- Was then able to determine the URL (rawgit) from some screenshot but the process was stuck during Oak's detection
- I had a hard time making it work, I finally cloned the repo locally and it was a bit better but couldn't save the WiFi settings
- Chrome's console was showing some error message regarding ASN, found out that when Firefox 45 is used, it works
- But then registration to Particle.io didn't work, I had to do it manually (not a big hassle)
- Wanted to give the Arduino IDE a shot but the board's json file was last updated 3 years back and references URL to arduino.esp8266.com that return 404's
Digistump / Erik completely abandoned that part of their business right?
They concentrated on the Build One and to them the Oak is dead meat?
Cheers
PeterF:
I don't think it's dead meat, but then maybe I'm overoptimistic. ;D
It's certainly been a long time since I've seen any posts or comments by Erik on the Oak, but last I heard (and that was a direct email, abeit quite a while ago) that he wanted to make it so the Oak was no longer tied to Particle, and would have a complete standalone dashboard and more robust OTA. For a while there we were even working on a simple self-hostable Particle like backend, but then the BuildOne printer project took up all his time and not much has happened since. I believe a big part of the problem resulted from not getting the level of support that was expected from Particle, which set back the Oak quite badly as a project. Hence why most of the people I know still using Oaks have simply backed up the firmware, and flashed it with the ESP8266 Arduino core, as the hardware itself is perfect.
PeterF:
I mentioned it on the github issue, but I'll also repeat it here for people who don't follow the riveting boards package github repo... I've forked the repo and just fixed the URLs (hopefully)... and am open to any PRs or fixes people want to suggest.
This URL should work in the Arduino IDE :
--- Code: ---https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfeerick/digistump-boards-index/master/package_digistump_index.json
--- End code ---
dynek:
Thank you for your answers PeterF.
I would like it to use the Oak as a regular device (meaning without particle.io) but what refrains me so far is that I'd like to be able to flash it using USB.
Reason is, I haven't yet found a serial adapter that works out of the box on OS X plus plugging USB cable is much easier.
What about this:
https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ota_updates/readme.html
Has anyone tried this?
Cheers
chad:
--- Quote from: dynek on September 01, 2019, 11:36:00 pm ---I would like it to use the Oak as a regular device (meaning without particle.io) but what refrains me so far is that I'd like to be able to flash it using USB.
Reason is, I haven't yet found a serial adapter that works out of the box on OS X plus plugging USB cable is much easier.
--- End quote ---
I'm using ESP8266 Arduino Core and flashing the Oak via USB. It's working great! I use this FTDI USB to Serial adapter and it works "out of the box" on my MacBook with no problems. I also use a BusPirate but it requires a little more effort to set it up as a transparent bridge and might be overkill unless you have other uses for its versatility.
--- Quote from: dynek on September 01, 2019, 11:36:00 pm ---What about this:
https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ota_updates/readme.html
Has anyone tried this?
--- End quote ---
I have not tried OTA updates yet but intend to after I finish a few projects.
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