- Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:51 am
#6906
At this point I am feeling like they botched a batch of ESP-07's. I haven't heard anything from my supplier since I provided my layouts, diagrams, and tests, not a very good sign. I have seen a myriad of modules now with varying production qualities from very neat and precise to simply sloppy. I understand the popularity of the chip for what it is and the price point. The possibilities and implementations are endless.
The community is great here, Espressif is really dropping the ball. Someone from Espressif should be all over these posts popping in and offering advice as well as updated documentation.
Quite honestly TI is no better with their CC series WiFi SOC's except they have a far higher price per module but at least they provide verbose documentation.
It seems everybody and their cousin in the Asian electronics markets are selling these like crazy. Flip-flopped silkscreen labeling and the like are all problems. Does anyone know of a verifiable and highly reputable supplier that is known to be responsible and work hand-in-hand with Espressif?
Espressif doesn't seem to want to communicate with anyone unless you sign their NDA and want a crapload of chips.
I am not at the point where I need 1,000 chips just yet and at this point I feel that I cannot move forward on some of the projects planned due to all of the factors.
Imagine if Espressif actually gave the tiniest bit of support to the community and implemented some sort of better quality control, for instance maybe insisting upon and enforcing using the same color led indicators consistently and in the proper positions would be superb. I imagine any PCB production house that wants to produce ESP8266 modules simply does it. What makes it worse is the lack of direct and proper documentation.
Aditionally tweets to Espressif simply get favorited with no response at all to said issues.
I really want to succeed with Espressif, but they aren't making it easy.
