- Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:57 pm
#12068
GPIO16 and RESET can be shorted together all the time. I soldered the pins together and have no problems flashing the chip.
- Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:03 pm
#12070
In order to enable some undocumented low power features of ESP8266, we have added the following codes in the LOW_POWER_SENSOR_DEMO_DIR/app/Makefile, that modifies part of the flash content. [...]
This magic sauce command, lowers the power consumption of the chip by 30% when it wakes up to perform sensor measurement.
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:18 am
#12082
It's actually a nice trick — they write to a peripheral register by adding a fake segment to the firmware image with start address equal to the register address, and dword value as contents. This way the register is initialized very early at boot.
