I am thinking seriously about purchasing the more expensive UNO Wifi Rev2 compared to other Wifi boards. I already have ESP8266 (the Wemos D1 R2 as well as D1 mini) and ESP32 (NODEMCU) dev boards so, i'm wondering if it's worth purchasing the Wifi Rev2 and what advantages i would get from using it over the ESP boards that i already own. Would it be easier to get certain things done? Like, which ones?
I think a table showing the benefits of using the Wifi rev2 compared to other Wifi boards would be a great idea to market this product.
no other board has the attractive name "Arduino Uno WiFi" and the associated list of functions.
two years ago I didn't know anything about Arduino and I choose to buy Arduino Uno WiFi (Developer Edition) because it was much cheaper then Uno with WiFi shield. I had no clue about esp8266 'arduino'.
And then I discovered it doesn't have a library for basic TCP communication I needed for Modbus, only HTTP at port 80.
Then I found a new firmware and library are developed and available on GitHub, but without any documentation. I found out how to install it and how to make it better and I documented it. And then I made it better for all Uno WiFi owners with a new implementation of the on-board serial adapter connecting the on board esp8266 and more important, the documentation for this Arduino.org created and then orphaned board.
I think the only bad thing is the fact that the atmega4809 has a different architecture than the other ones. Especially for programming in Assembler this is a bit harder than on the old ones. Mainly though because there is just not as much documentation for it as for the other ones.
I think the perfect Arduino UNO Wifi board would have the ATmega328P. Maybe it will be released one day in a different model? Hopefully thinking... sigh
DryRun:
I think the perfect Arduino UNO Wifi board would have the ATmega328P. Maybe it will be released one day in a different model? Hopefully thinking... sigh
this was developed by Arduino.org as Uno WiFi 'standard edition'. and "whatsnext" are the same people.
it has 328p with esp8266 on SPI. no schematics. no support.
