VS Code, ESP8266, non-RTOS (NONOS-sdk) project creation

hankb · April 9, 2022, 2:52am

Hi folks, I just created a project for a NodeMCU 12E using PIO on VS Code all on Debian Linux. PIO did not create any source files. Here is what it provided.

.
├── include
│   └── README
├── lib
│   └── README
├── platformio.ini
├── src
└── test
    └── README

4 directories, 4 files

Is this to be expected? The “PROBLEMS” tab lists 16 problems such as

                    "/home/hbarta/.platformio/packages/framework-esp8266-nonos-sdk/extra_include",

Whereas the line that precedes that was not reported as a problem.

                    "/home/hbarta/.platformio/packages/framework-esp8266-nonos-sdk/include",

Are these really problems?

Thanks!

Edit: For now I can use the esp8266-nonos-sdk-blink project as a starting point.

maxgerhardt · April 9, 2022, 8:25am

This folder does indeed not exist, the builder code is wrong there

github.com

platformio/platform-espressif8266/blob/develop/builder/frameworks/esp8266-nonos-sdk.py#L79-L91


      
              ("F_CPU", "$BOARD_F_CPU"),
              "__ets__",
              "ICACHE_FLASH"
          ],
          
          CPPPATH=[
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "include"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "extra_include"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "driver_lib", "include"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "include", "espressif"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "include", "lwip"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "include", "lwip", "ipv4"),
              join(FRAMEWORK_DIR, "include", "lwip", "ipv6"),

But given the total state of ESP8266 NonOS (and RTOS) SDK support which is years behind the current one (PlatformIO: 2.1.0, current: 3.0.5), I would not use PlatformIO for this framework anyways.

hankb · April 10, 2022, 3:07am

Thanks for the suggestion. That leaves me with two questions:

How did you determine that the support for ESP8266 NonOS (and RTOS) SDK is that far behind?
The other framework options I see in the project wizard are Arduino and Simba. Are either of these more current? (I’d really prefer to try something other than Arduino as I have a project that uses that and has a couple issues. (*) )
Or would you recommend I use the nonos-sdk w/out PlatformIO? (It makes me lazy too! )

OK, three questions.

(*) The issues with the Arduino based program are that.

If I don’t use Serial output, the connection to a BME280 stops working.
If I connect to the USB/tty and read output, the program will run for over 10 days (before I got tired of waiting and pulled the plug.) If I power it from a wall wort, it stops operating in a day or two. I suspect that if console output is not read, it eventually uses all available RAM and locks the device up and w/out resetting.

I’ve put some hours into trying to track these down and feel my time would be better spent trying a hopefully more robust framework