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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The 8266 12-5 node-emcu boards are a great buy for the price. Super easy to use and setup. Wifi works well and easy to set up using the wifimanager library. Love these boards for ease of use and access to so many more pins than the common esp-01.

Prefer that the pins not be soldered (drop a star). Sck is d5, m iso is d6, and mosi is d7 by default. It works excellently.



Cons

Used one board as wi-fi module for open evse charger, but locked up after 2 weeks and will not flash. One cannot trust sellers, once they sell you a good product and another time a bad one. The fact that i changed literally zero variables when uploadi...  Read More

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Highlights

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Quality


Delivery on time very happy with this supplier and product


Very easy to program with the arduino suite


It took me 3 hours of searching forums tutorials and other reviews downloading drivers and arduino libraries to try to interfac...  Read More


It’s 4mb btw didn’t see any mention of that on the product page

Price


The price is also very reasonable compared to other iot modules on the market making them a great value for the money


This one is good for the price


Also the cost is surprisingly low considering what these can do

Packaging/appearance


I get lights so i dont think its necessarily doa but im somewhat torn if i should bother trying to get replacements for them fr...  Read More


Recommendation get a breadboard and some jumper wires which makes it much easier to connect components to the esp8266


Download the esp8266 board library plug in the esp8266 via micro usb this provides the 3v power required

Competitiveness


Theyre a highquality reliable product that has exceeded my expectations in every way


I bought a handful of esp8266 and esp32s from different vendors to test several varieties


I chased a functional bug in my project for hours just to find that my sensor wasnt initializing correctly because it was conne...  Read More


3 out of 3 powered up fine flashed fine and were broadcasting and receiving mqtt messages in no time

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  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that there may be counterfeit products sold through this listing.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,413 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 31 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Couldn’t get thonny to flash the boards


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I tried esptool manually and had issues until i manually checked the flash size and accommodated during install


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It’s 4mb btw didn’t see any mention of that on the product page


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Just get the right driver flash wled done


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Took me a while to figure out that the usb cable i was using wasnt compatible


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After installing platformio cli command line tools and running 34pio device list34 on my mac i didnt see anything that looked like it might be the right device


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After trying a few usb cables a device named 34cp2102 usb to uart bridge controller34 starting showing up in the device list


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    My first time working with these so im definitely not an expert

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