tcp-rpl "library" , is hanging punyforth , what can be wrong

[enriquepinedo]

Dear Attila,

I am triying to make REPL (tcp-rpl library ) function work.

Punyforth is finally comunicating fine trough the usb and I was able to test some GP-IO tasks without problems.

Now I am following your example of "Running punyforth from a power outlet" to redirect all in-out from the net , and be able to download new words from a wifi link. (please note I am doing all this from Windows, I only needed Linux to create the first "core.forth" , from them on I coninued flashing the ESP8266 from the windows flashing utility)

For this example( Sonoff "smart socket") , we need 1) gpio.forth \ ok, it did work then 2) tcp-repl.forth which apparently requires to install first "netcon.forth" and "mailbox.forth"

My problems seem to be with "netcon.forth" :

we have this problem that will not compile see (**)

: netcon-new ( type -- netcon | throws:ENETCON ) override netcon-new \ <--- ** this is an autoreference ? dup 0= if ENETCON throw then RECV_TIMEOUT_MSEC over netcon-set-recvtimeout ;

I really do not know were the problem is in netcon.forth but, when I try to install those needed files to get tcp-repl working , it allways hangs the system. I get into infinte resets and reboots.

I am thanking in advance for your help.

Regards Enrique

** can I comment out "override netcon-new" ?

[enriquepinedo]

This are the messages I get ... (it makes no sense, since I have downloaded all the dependencies, gpio, wifi-forth , tcp-rcpl forth, and anything in between....

pm_task_hdl : 3fff8758, prio:1, stack:176 frc2_timer_task_hdl:3fffb328, prio:12, stack:200

ESP-Open-SDK ver: 0.0.1 compiled @ May 18 2016 18:24:52 phy ver: 273, pp ver: 8.3

Punyforth loading.. mode : sta(18:fe:34:e1:2e:f7) add if0 scandone add 0 aid 5 cnt

connected with TP-LINK_E565B8, channel 4 dhcp client start... ip:192.168.1.102,mask:255.255.255.0,gw:192.168.1.1

Undefined word: mailbox:

Undefined word: task:

Undefined word: task:

Undefined word: activate

Undefined word: netcon-tcp-server

Undefined word: connections

Undefined word: deactivate

Undefined word: command-loop

Undefined word: netcon-readln

Undefined word: activate

Undefined word: connections

Undefined word: command-loop

Undefined word: netcon-dispose

Undefined word: deactivate

Undefined word: repl-start

Undefined word: multi

Undefined word: repl-server-task

Undefined word: repl-worker-task

Undefined word: traceback Fatal exception (29): epc1=0x40239a18 epc2=0x00000000 epc3=0x4023980b excvaddr=0x00000008 depc=0x00000000 excsave1=0x40213374 Registers: a0 40213374 a1 3fffbe70 a2 0000000a a3 3fffc318 a4 00000009 a5 000000fd a6 0000007f a7 60000000 a8 00000008 a9 3ffe920c a10 ffffffff a11 3ffe882c a12 00000000 a13 3ffee9f8 SAR 0000001e

Stack: SP=0x3fffbe70 0x3fffbe70: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x3fffbe80: 00000000 00000000 00000000 a5a5a5a5 0x3fffbe90: e12edb34 0000005c 3fffbe20 e1815fed 0x3fffbea0: 3fff7128 3fff7128 3fffbe98 3fff7120 0x3fffbeb0: 0000000d ec31493c e550588b 3fffbe98 0x3fffbec0: 00000000 00000002 3fffb490 796e7570 0x3fffbed0: 74726f66 7ef00068 0077dd48 00000002 0x3fffbee0: 00000000 00000000 b0a7c100 04b2780e

Free Heap: 12712 _heap_start 0x3fff78e8 brk 0x3fffcc44 supervisor sp 0x3ffffb00 sp-brk 11964 bytes arena (total_size) 21340 fordblks (free_size) 748 uordblocks (used_size) 20592

ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:2, boot mode:(3,7)

load 0x40100000, len 2292, room 16 tail 4 chksum 0x57 load 0x3ffe8000, len 772, room 4 tail 0 chksum 0x0b csum 0x0b

rBoot v1.4.0 - richardaburton@gmail.com Flash Size: 32 Mbit Flash Mode: DIO Flash Speed: 40 MHz rBoot Option: Big flash rBoot Option: RTC data

[zeroflag]

Hi Enrique,

Could you describe how excatly do you flash the code to the esp step by step? The error message indicates that the mailbox: word which is located in mailbox.forth and requires by netcon is not defined. If you use the tools and scipts like modules.py, flash.sh/flash.bat correctly then this should not happen.

This is correct forth code, netcon-new is defined in terms of its older definition. See the override word in the readme.

: netcon-new ( type -- netcon | throws:ENETCON ) override 
  netcon-new dup 0= if ENETCON throw then 
  RECV_TIMEOUT_MSEC over netcon-set-recvtimeout ;

[enriquepinedo]

Hi Attila ! I did find what was wrong. I am still learning punyforth differences... because your forth has some words that I do not know and are not standard F83. F. ex. override, so I thought in first case it was some corrupted file I was compiling in tcp-rcpl . Ok now I see override is an immediate word.
I was also confused looking at the word "words" , I did even lost a lot of time compiling one for myself it took a lot of time and was also running wrong and throwing trash in the stack, all without knowing that "words" was allready there and you called it "help " ! I am still in the transition phase , so please have a bit of patience with my questions. I think I will have some more....

I went step by step looking at all the code was missing, and found all the "libraries" wifi ringbuff netcon tasks.... etc etc I placed everything together by hand, (remember I am working from Windows) so I could finally assemble a new ueber.forth and voila ! it did work ! No definition was missing and Punyforth boots normal.

Of course this is all my fault because I am not using Linux, it could be overcomed with the python routines you created.

By the way I am also admiring your excellent work with punyforth. now I am triying to establish connection with Putty... it looks promising.

Best regards Enrique

[zeroflag]

Cool, I'm glad you make it work.

I regularly flash the esp on Windows and it's really not any different or more complicated than doing the same on Linux or Mac.

Open a cmd.exe

cd punyforth/arch/esp8266/bin/
python modules.py tcp-repl
flash COM3

and that's it. If you want to flash some additional custom code you can use the following

python modules.py --app myapp.forth tcp-repl
flash COM3

(assuming the COM port is COM3)