Questions and wish list about Pyboard D

[vitormhenrique]

I've posted this unofficial guide to the Pyboard D. Some of the content is based on my testing, the rest on information from Damien (reproduced with his permission).

Any additions/corrections/PR's/comments from those with boards are welcome.

Now I just need to be able to buy one!

[Kip]

When and where would I be able to purchase a PyBoard D? (Very excited)

[ThomasChr]

This seems to be a very well kept secret...

[ThomasChr]

Does anyone know if the Pyboad D is (like the ESP8266) capable of having Wifi Station and Access Point at the same time?

The 1DX Wifi Chip can do that: https://wireless.murata.com/type-1dx.html
(Network AP and STA dual mode)

So I thing micropython will be able to do that too?

[devnull]

Does the pyboard D use the same build as pyboard 1.1 ??

and...

Can someone who has one let me know the result of this:

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import socket
dir(socket)
dir(socket.socket)

[rcolistete]

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MicroPython v1.9.4-925-g8edf1205f-dirty on 2019-01-16; PYBD_SF2 with STM32F722IEK
Type "help()" for more information.
>>> 
paste mode; Ctrl-C to cancel, Ctrl-D to finish
=== import socket
=== dir(socket)
=== dir(socket.socket)
['__class__', '__name__', 'AF_INET', 'AF_INET6', 'IPPROTO_IP', 'IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP', 'SOCK_DGRAM', 'SOCK_RAW', 'SOCK_STREAM', 'SOL_SOCKET', 'SO_REUSEADDR', 'callback', 'getaddrinfo', 'print_pcbs', 'reset', 'socket']
['__class__', '__del__', '__name__', 'accept', 'bind', 'close', 'connect', 'listen', 'makefile', 'read', 'readinto', 'readline', 'recv', 'recvfrom', 'send', 'sendall', 'sendto', 'setblocking', 'setsockopt', 'settimeout', 'write']

[pythoncoder]

Does the pyboard D use the same build as pyboard 1.1 ??

No. Some code is stored in external QSPI flash.

[devnull]

No. Some code is stored in external QSPI flash.

Thanks, but I don't understand what you mean ??

I don't have the board yet, still in transit.

Is the build / flash process different from the pybboard 1.1 ?

[devnull]

OK, great just received my pyboard Ds.

I have the 4GB EMMC connected, but unless I am missing something it does not appear to be giving me 4GB and is only showing 2MB of storage ??

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cd /Volumes/PYBFLASH
df -h
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1   2.0Mi  100Ki  1.9Mi     5%     512          0  100%   /Volumes/PYBFLASH

[pythoncoder]

You are just seeing the internal flash. At the REPL what does sys.path show? I'm wondering if it might be visible at the Python level.

I wonder if the device needs to be explicitly mounted?