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mcer12 / Hugo-ESP8266

Hugo is a 4-button ESP8266 Wi-Fi Remote, Arduino compatible and simple to use.
MIT License
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not an issue, more a plea : Revive this project with esp32-c3 ? #37

Closed Zixim closed 2 years ago

Zixim commented 2 years ago

The title says it all really... There's this thing : https://github.com/makermoekoe/Picoclick-C3 , but it's far from user-friendly. I've been using your Hugos for a few years now, and they're easy to config, run rock solid, integrate great with Home Assistant. No complaints at all.

So, a more modern esp32-c3 version, please ?

mcer12 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I don't see any issue with using ESP8266 - my hugos run prefectly fine and I don't see any meaningful benefit by using ESP32. If the ESP32 was 5GHz capable, that would be a different story.

That said, you can make the board yourself if you can solder, gerber, BOM and schematic are all in this repository :)

Zixim commented 2 years ago

i'd prefer to purchase...8266 or 32 are equivalent in this usage case that's true.

ceoloide commented 2 years ago

Shameless plug: a while ago I created an ESP-32 derivative of Hugo-ESP8622, aptly named Ugo-ESP32.

That board uses a TinyPICO module, which uses almost no battery on low power mode. With a 1300mha battery I could get almost 2 years of standby time and over 500 button presses.

The ESP-32 gives more flexibility with encryption, so it supports both HTTPS and MQTTS endpoints at the same time, and I have native integration with Home Assistant, which I personally use as well.

JLCPCB now offers a wider variety of components for their SMD service, so in theory one could order the Hugo-8266 through them directly and have it fully assembled.

Zixim commented 2 years ago

This Tinypico thing is expensive - 22 usd ??

About JLCPCB + Hugo-ESP8266, I'm very tempted, but this is entirely new to me. Even going through the instructions included in Gerber_Hugo-ESP8266.zip, I'm left with way many questions, leading me to believe I'll never end up with a few useable devices.

I mean...it says : 1. Finish the schematic and PCB design at EasyEDA. But EasyEDA doesn't let me import the gerber files...

Slightly demotivated here...

mcer12 commented 2 years ago

You dont unzip the gerber díle, you upload it directly to jlcpcb ;)

Zixim commented 2 years ago

Yea, that's what the web interface at JLCPCB told me... then it wants a CPL file, which I'm supposed to make in EasyEDA ?