InqPortal - A RAD, IoT, Application, Web Server

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Re: InqPortal - A RAD, IoT, Application, Web Server

By Inq720
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:35 pm #93958
EduardoEG wrote:It looks like a very beautiful and useful project!!!


Thanks. I hope so on the "useful". Time will tell if anyone gives it a try and sees if it works for their desired use case... and if not give me some constructive feedback.
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Cost

By Inq720
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:40 am #94009 Someone asked in another thread and I just kind of assumed that being on this forum implied it was free. You know what they say about assuming.

So... I've added it up front in the O.P. and I'll state the details here as well.

It is free!
It is also royalty free if you make a product using InqPortal and sell it.
Here is where I post that in writing - https://inqonthat.com/inqportal-license/
Here I talk about cost to you - https://inqonthat.com/inqportal/#Cost

I also teach for free, by volunteering at my local library and community college.

It is, however, Not Open-Source. There is nothing in it that can't be reproduced by any competent developer. Except maybe the more than 10,000 hours I have invested in it streamlining the integrated concept and improving the stability. I am willing to share conceptually any aspects of it.

I do have a donation button on the https://inqonthat.com/contribute/ page, but this will probably be the last plug for it, you'll see. I have no intentions of even doing the nag that the Arduino IDE does... unless inflation eats my retirement fund. :roll:
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Version 5.2.2 Is Available

By Inq720
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:46 pm #94046 New to this version...
  • Re-enabled support for a client to connect to more than one server for home Automation type projects.
  • Added InqSpeedRacer example - illustrate the multi-server ability - https://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23596
  • @kinlougha turned me on to the WeMos D1 Mini Pro with 16MB of space. I had to try it out. Actually, the only thing that needed to change was on start-up the server itemizes all the files out to the LOG. I used a u8 to count thinking no-one in their right mind would ever go over 256 files. It only is displayed on the LOG and never used again, so it didn't break anything. More importantly it does show a problem with a huge number of files. It is probably unusable after 400 files and somewhere above 500 it'll reset... done... fried... dead on the floor. I'm not too embarrassed :oops: Windows had the same problem for years!
  • Added a Known Issues page for developers - https://inqonthat.com/inqportal-known-issues/

Several other benchmarks testing the 16MB...
  • 15,542,383 bytes uploaded in 2:17 = 113 KB/sec - Won't win any races here.
  • Largest image file uploaded 9,534,044 bytes.
  • File served out to browser (9,534,044 bytes) in 1:48. Again no speed demon. But since InqPortal supports browser caching, the second load is right there quick. :D

One last note of nostalgia - The very first computer I bought in college (parents got us children an Apple II earlier) was an IBM Clone running a scalding 4.77 MHz. It cost over $2K. I remember upgrading it later with a 10MB hard disk ($800) and I thought I died and gone to heaven after compiling with 360K floppy disks....

And here we have an 160MHz with WiFi and 16MB hard disk for about $5!
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Version 5.2.3 is Available

By Inq720
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:07 am #94062 Added enhancement that now permits HTML checkboxes and radio buttons to be handled transparently like all other INPUT types. See https://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23590&p=94051 for more details.
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