Arduino causes hang when booting

[Rob Lewis]

Well, once it’s finished I intend on using it to monitor and hopefully control the temperature in my Big Green Egg BBQ smoker. I’m programming the ESP8266 with the standard Arduino IDE, using library code from SparkFun to read the thermocouple interface, and AdaFruit’s web server code to deliver the data to my Mac via HTTP. 

I should be able to use a spare I/O pin on the ESP8266 to switch the fan that controls the draft and thereby the temperature. The idea is to replace the old stand-alone control box, a “BBQ Guru”. So that way XTension can be in charge of burning my meat :-) 

As I reported here a while ago, I’ve developed a P-I-D controller simulation in AppleScript that can probably be adapted to this use. 

> On Mar 21, 2016, at 09:47 , Jeff Wooding <jeff at qualitytubandtile.com> wrote:
> 
> Rob I'm interested in what you use it for? and How it's implemented. Do share, Please.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Rob Lewis <rob at whidbey.com <mailto:rob at whidbey.com>> wrote:
> I’ve got the cheaper AdaFruit ESP8266 interfaced with SparkFun’s thermocouple breakout board and read by XTension over Wi-Fi with LoadURL. It works quite well though I need to upgrade its networking code; currently it’s hard-coded to a specific Wi-Fi access point. 
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>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 08:10 , james at sentman.com <mailto:james at sentman.com> wrote:
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>> Or get an ethernet or wifi shield and connect to XTension over the network ;) Or get an ESP8266 based arduino device like these which have the wifi built in and can be programmed with the same Arduino IDE and would let you get them on the network and XTension can talk to it.
>> 
>> If you want to do that I can help with example code for getting the networking side up.
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>> https://www.adafruit.com/products/2821 <https://www.adafruit.com/products/2821>
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>> that one has a built in LiPoly charging, there is a cheaper version that doesn’t have that.
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>> Sparkfun also makes 2 different versions of the same thing with and without lipoly charging.
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>> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13711 <https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13711>
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>>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 10:56 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com <mailto:james at sentman.com>> wrote:
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>>> As a last ditch solution you could always use instead one of the USB/FTDI cables that I linked to in the arduino pro/mini thread, you’ll need a 5v version for the Uno and not the 3.3v version. Connect the power and 2 serial lines and you can bypass the built in chip entirely with one that you know will work. That would be frustrating though because it will add $15 to the cost which is probably as much as the arduino cost in the first place… 
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  James
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>> 
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