Thank you Peter, Kevin and all the other people who chimed in.
This does makes sense and yes, we live in a spoiled world, where everything that, when ordered, is not at your door step tomorrow is "un-normal". I will try your library Peter, when I have a chance and hopefully not forget to results report here. Especially in the case it does work. I just need to figure out how to pre-compile it, so that it fits onto the ESP8266 (if I understand the notes in your repo correctly), but I have done something like this in the past ... I think
Thanks a lot!
Thomas