MDNS drives me crazy...

[Holger Lembke]

Hi all.

Just another day with MDNS driving me crazy.

I try to get ArduinOTA from ESP32 to work. Taking the latest code from github, latest IDE, take the example. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch.

This is not about the ESP32 developement. It is about the combination about network, the IDE and the mdns stuff that seems too complex, is unreliable and too difficult to work in a simple environment.

During last class half of the PCs with 1.8.3 (I think) never showed up, some showed up. And those who showed up saw other than PCs (yes, this is how it works) and could flash other devices. This can be nice, but it is a hassle for beginners....

I made a proposal to create some plain easy, stupid stuff that works. See https://groups.google.com/a/arduino.cc/forum/#!msg/developers/-Za5wgrkLx0/58KGfdiNCgAJ from 2016-11-30 or https://github.com/holgerlembke/Arduino-IDE/tree/master/arduino-core/src/cc/arduino/packages/discoverers

Nothing happend. So sad.

Please! I can't drink limocello all day long to ease the pain. Please!

Greeting from rainy Germany

(so switching to grog anyway)