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- Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:55 pm #25818 I think you have much choice to debug using prints to figure out where it is crashing ...

- Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:42 pm #27131

I think you have much choice to debug using prints to figure out where it is crashing ...

Yes, I did that. Took a while but I narrowed it down. If I understand correctly, the solar tracker code drives stepper motors by "bit-banging" (is this the correct term?) and gets locked in a loop driving the steppers. So I threw in a yield() there and all seems to be well.

- Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:40 pm #56539

So, I'm doing this.
After going over the solar tracker code by Gabriel, I noticed there is little to no dependency on AVR-specific code. So, I basically went through all of the files in his program [url=http://www.cerebralmeltdown.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/12/Mega_SunTracking_Heliostat_Program_V098.zip]

Hi

I've just started looking at using esp8266's for a heliostat - and see you had the same idea - a year earlier!

How did you go - did you resolve all the issues? What drive mechanism are you using? Is there a write-up on your webpage somewhere?

More questions to follow.....
thanks

Jeff

- Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:10 am #87395 Absolutely awesome project I'm just adding smart phone / assistant control to this idea, so if you'd like to share the ESP sun tracking code you've already done in return for the smart phone / assistant code that'd be amazing

Thanks heaps for putting this up, very kind of you to so generously share