ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Dec 14, 2015 5:41 am #36383 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.

Code: Select allSerial.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?

- Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:44 am #36458 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.

Code: Select all  Serial.print(__FILE__); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print(__DATE__); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print(__TIME__);


Output in serial is like:

Code: Select alleven.ino Dec 15 2015 09:36:40

- Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:04 pm #36494 @gerardwr
Love it! Why didn't I think of this?!

- Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:25 am #36655

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.