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- Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:55 am #46406 Greetings,

Although I am an ESP8266 newbe I have a background with quite a few microcontrollers.

I discovered the custom build cloud service which appealed to me and appears to provide a great service.

However after four attempts at flashing slightly different custom builds which all included DHT, RTCTime and NTP modules I discovered that the dht and rtctime commands produce a "nil" error suggesting the modules are not loaded within the build. Using an external library I can read the DHT11 sensor OK but the built in commands do not work.

I am using an esp201 module which seems to work OK with the exception of access to the built- in modules. I have had it operating as a TCP server and seem to be able to connect to it without any difficulty via the LAN.

I am wondering if there is a need to initialize the built-in modules before they will work? I presume the modules should work without need for an external library and that I must be doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Best Regards,
tma

- Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:59 pm #46416 Post Deleted - see topic: Custom Build Modules?

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- Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:04 pm #46417 Greetings All,

I discovered I was not using the flasher.exe program correctly I was not selecting the proper file to upload. That does make a difference, ...


Sorry for the post!