All, What ESP8266 board are you all using?

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All,
What ESP8266 board are you all using?

Thanks
Greg

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Latest version of nodemcu, which is esp12e(f). Also have a couple of webbys or something like that.

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Wemos D1 Mini and Adafruit Huzzah. I prefer the $4 Wemos over the Huzzah mostly because it can be programmed with a micro USB cable instead of a USB to TTL converter.

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I’m using Adafruit feather Huzzah, which I can program via micro USB, or via OTA updates, which is great, as it’s driving 64 Neopixels outside. You can update it wirelessly directly from the Arduino IDE, or via an HTTP server (which is what I use -I just push my latest .bin file, and they update themselves automatically the next time they check the server for an update).

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Agree with @Nicholas_Waterton Adafruit Feather Huzzah is the most convenient.
Just one thing to observe: You can externally power your device over the USB_pin. However the voltage should be less than 5.2V AND you need to unplug the USB cable from the computer when running of the power supply.

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thanks all for your freed back!

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@Nicholas_Waterton I’ve been wanting to do the OTA updates, any guide or direction you can point me on how to set it up?

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@Devon_Meyers

Source for reference OTA implementation. I’m doing OTA and it works very well.
http://esp8266.github.io/Arduino/versions/2.0.0/doc/ota_updates/ota_updates.html

Which works very nicely with PlatformIO: http://platformio.org/

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I use the V4 NodeMCU that are acailable on Aliexpress for under $5