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Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2015 5:41 am**

Hi, having various ESP's kicking around on the desk in various stages of development, I find it impossible to workout which is flashed with what.
I've decided to start using a header that is printed out over the serial monitor at power up so I can tell them apart.

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Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.print(“Electric gate opener V2.0”);
Serial.end();

Should I use any particular format or include any other information to be more in line with any existing reports?

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:44 am**

I use this, not as fancy as yours, but it can be placed unchanged in any sketch. It prints the filename and time of compile.

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  Serial.print(__FILE__); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print(__DATE__); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print(__TIME__);

Output in serial is like:

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Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:04 pm**

@gerardwr
Love it! Why didn't I think of this?!

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:25 am**

ian wrote:Love it! Why didn't I think of this?!

I didn't think of it either, but picked it up on the board here :-)

So I thought to pass it on to you.

Cheers,
Gerard.

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Serial header to show what sketch the ESP is flashed with.

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