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by markxr
Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: POST on HTTP Server
Replies: 7
Views: 8555

Re: POST on HTTP Server

It is easy enough to do, you will probably want to check the Content-length header (maybe reject posts that don't have it). If the POST is small enough to fit in ram, then it's no problem. Otherwise, you'll need to read it in chunks and parse out. I've implemented HTTP file upload with PUT, because ...
by markxr
Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Questions
Topic: Remove imported module from RAM
Replies: 62
Views: 49259

Re: Remove imported module from RAM

As far as I've been able to tell, the memory is released if you delete it from sys.modules and also remove any other references to it (then call gc() if you want) I didn't know about those "interned strings" though. If we delete a module, then import it again later, does it leak? (I don't know the a...
by markxr
Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:55 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: Avoid flash wearing by altering behavior originally introduced by Espressif (the inventor of the ESP8266)
Replies: 76
Views: 60158

Re: Avoid flash wearing by altering behavior originally introduced by Espressif (the inventor of the ESP8266)

Oh dear. (I posted the bug that started this. Sorry.) I really, really, didn't plan on starting this "Holy War". Please take a chill pill (or two). For my part, I'd be happy with any reasonable solution which allows connecting / disconnecting without wearing the flash. If it's backwards-compatible, ...
by markxr
Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:27 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: Downloading 1GB of data with MicroPython ESP8266 port
Replies: 26
Views: 27046

Re: Downloading 1GB of data with MicroPython ESP8266 port

That is very interesting. I have noticed that the new build of Micropython with the new firmware runs my "stumbler"-type application much more robustly than the previous one. There were some cases where it would crash inside scan(), which I could never figure out. Now it appears that scan() crashes ...
by markxr
Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:13 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: What makes WiFi config persistent?
Replies: 6
Views: 6484

Re: What makes WiFi config persistent?

The API provided by the espressif firmware does this automatically when you call the function to set the config. There is a second function which does not save the config, there is a big discussion in this pull request: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/2510 On how / whether to use it.
by markxr
Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:58 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: RFC: Not enabling WebREPL by default on boot in 1.8.6
Replies: 21
Views: 20693

Re: RFC: Not enabling WebREPL by default on boot

I honestly think that enabling webrepl (even without any suggestion of a password) is not a problem. Micropython is not intended as an end-user product; access will only ever be viable for those in limited wifi range. And anyone who flashes their ESP board with Micropython, we can reasonably expect ...
by markxr
Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:45 am
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: Sound spectrum analysis, adverse harmonic tones, micropython, adafruit, fft
Replies: 2
Views: 5778

Re: Sound spectrum analysis, adverse harmonic tones, micropython, adafruit, fft

Not exactly, but I did something similar with a Rapsberry Pi and a cheap USB microphone. The resulting configuration was not pretty, but it worked. I used Python (obviously) and the Numpy FFT library. I used the "arecord" program to read sound samples from the device in the desired format and pipe i...
by markxr
Sun Oct 09, 2016 10:30 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: Question about allocating memory in interrupts
Replies: 10
Views: 8450

Re: Question about allocating memory in interrupts

If the function check_msg simply returns a reference to an already-allocated buffer, then it won't need to allocate, right?

Mark
by markxr
Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:55 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: 'module' object has no attribute 'IPPROTO_UDP'
Replies: 3
Views: 5125

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'IPPROTO_UDP'

You can omit the final parameter. In any case, its default value of 0 is usually the only possible value. In particular, I don't think Micropython supports more than one protocol per type. The "protocol" parameter is normally only needed for unusual types of sockets, for example, if using raw or udp...
by markxr
Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:00 pm
Forum: ESP8266 boards
Topic: socket accept() does not (always) accept
Replies: 2
Views: 3137

Re: socket accept() does not (always) accept

That sounded really plausible, however, I've increased it to 5 and it made no difference at all.