Roadmap / Documentation ?

[luc-github]

Hi it looks nice project ^_^

Any plan to add OTA support library / SPIFFS or equivalent library? or any library to bring LinkIt at same level as ESP8266/ESP32 ?

Or is there any detailled documention about SDK / memory mapping to help to port them ?

I have a project currently using ESP8266 and soon ESP32 and I would love to support LinkIt board as well :smile_cat:

Thanks

[pablosun]

Thanks for asking!

OTA

We do have plans for OTA support in the near future. At this stage we are working on enhancing the BLE functionality.

SPIFFS

For SPIFFS, its not yet in the roadmap but we are open to this. Do you specifically need a file system-like API that supports usage like open( filePath, ...), or any persistent storage would do? If the data item is not very large (a few bytes), we would suggest using the LFlash class, which is essentially a key-value mapped storage.

Documentations

For documentations, the resource pages are:

• MT7697 technical reference manual. The MT76x7 Technical Reference Manual contains register mappings that you might need
• If you are interested in bootup / bootloader, please take a look at the LinkIt SDK, which can be downloaded at here.
• If you need other libraries to port your project, please let us know.

[luc-github]

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer ^^ Great for OTA, ^^ as I think it is key on this kind of board About File system : I use it to store the webserver files So it is more than few bytes the current ESP8266 libraries that I use in my project for your reference are:

• EEPROM library to store configuration data , this one is close to the flash you suggest, it has a 4Kb capacity to let the flash available for SPIFFS
• SPIFFS libraries to store webserver files and webserver configuration files, it use the space left by program, OTA, and EEPROM, so it is usually around 3Mb on 4Mb flash
• Web Server library which is an abstraction layer for GET/POST/ chunk and Upload data
• Device anouncement libraries : NetBios, SSDP, mDns, and for Soft AP : Captive portal ( I read you plan to support Soft AP also which is nice to have to configure the device the first time)
• SD library, I used ESP8266 SD Library but now I use external one : https://github.com/greiman/SdFat which allow long file name

I like the Linkit boot loader which unlike ESP8266 do not send any garbage at start which is great for device connected to another one by serial

I will definitly read the documentations - is there a forum / gitter to avoid to poluate issue tracker when having programing questions ?

Thanks again

[pablosun]

Hi,

For discussions that are not directly related to the Arduino Board Support Package, you can visit the forum here: https://en.forum.labs.mediatek.com/c/linkit-7697

Thanks for asking!

[luc-github]

Thanks a lot :smile_cat: