DCC-EX / Support-Planning

DCC++EX Repo to hold project planning documentation and processes
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Name: Louis

Email: loulouandroid@gmail.com

Timezone: 1

Software: EX-CommandStation

Version: 4.0.x

Title: Uno Wifi Rev 2 compatibility

Description: Hello, It seems that the board Arduino Uno Wifi Rev 2 is not managed by your products. Is it true? Do you plan to manage it? i'm new in Arduino, so I purchased that I thank the best solution, this board and the Arduino Motor Shield REV3. And I see that there is a very few number of projects compatible with this configuration.

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Asbelos commented 1 year ago

The reason we did not spend much time on this board is because it was tragically expensive and offered less progmem than a much cheaper mega with esp01 board. There is code in dcc-ex to run on this board but it is not generally supported so you may have to be prepared for some extra work.

habazut commented 1 year ago

There are different ways to provide networking to an AVR chip without network. We did choose an ESP8266 chip with the AT firmware and wrote an interface for that. The Uno Wifi Rev2 does instead use the WifiNINA library which unfortunately is quite differnet. If we for some other reason (STM32 uCPU and ESP32 coprocessor would be one) do implement networking with WifiNINA the Uno Wifi might be covered as well, but for it alone it's not quite worth it. And it is tight on memory.

Regards, Harald.