Will an ESP32 board with an external antenna have a stronger Wi-Fi signal?

[@rdyer8764]

😊😊 Welcome to your bad English. That's hilarious! Your English is fine, and truthfully it's kinda charming. Some peoples' accents are hard to listen to. For some reason yours is actually fun to listen to. Keep up your great work.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you my friend, i am not sure will you belive me but I never got comment nice like yours. Thank you.

[@dfn808]

Good video as usual. New name for 'T5 E-Paper S3 Pro' = NEWiCoTS - No Use Without Colour Toch Screen :)

[@christianbryant475]

Very much intereted in projects with the lilygo t5 s3 pro!!! i was able to order one at the beginnig of the year and it should be arriving soon.

[@VeniceInventors]

Nice RSSI monitor. Now you can walk around the house and make a map of the signal strength 🙂 That T5 e-paper could be called an "e-Tablet", it's really nice, I can't wait to get my hands on a couple of them (I need to have one I can modify while keeping one intact)

[@VeniceInventors]

Dang, it's sold out already. Hopefully they'll make more.

[@VolosProjects]

Yes it is sold out for some time, they will

[@kbelcar]

This e-paper board looks great for using to display ultralight plane engine data :)

[@roripocket6273]

Amazing devices thanks for sharing

[@JanDahl]

I hate having to admit to myself that I don’t even have time for all the other products Volos convinced me to buy 😂

[@VolosProjects]

@@JanDahl please dont buy anymore , i dont want you spend all your money 😀

[@JanDahl]

@ If I don’t spend my money, my wife will 🤣

[@VolosProjects]

@@JanDahl hahah :)

[@TomBruner1]

It's an updated M5 Paper. My M5 was displaying the weather. Temperature and humidity comes from built-in sensors. What sensors are in this one. Applications are thin client to headless IoT devices. Controllers, hub interface. Lighting scenes vs. on off light switches.

[@melmaki1118]

Is the "external" antenna supposed to be unwound and extended externally for best reception as looks like a standard wifi monopole type?

[@dcmotive]

Ill never understand why these Chinese companies refuse to check English translations with a native speaker, and still want to sell to English speaking markets. Ive offered several times with companies I worked with, and I always get the same thing, a look of shock, and then a shoulder shrug, its good enough. "No find SD card". They really have a hard time understanding the impact it has on peoples view of their quality, and they dont want their local translator to lose face. Anyways, rant over. Looking forward to the review!

[@JanDahl]

@@dcmotive It is fine enough for a demo project that just runs until you’ve made your own firmware.

[@TheIronHeadRat]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@Juacorios]

Maybe something like "programmable devices based on ESP32S3" would be more accurate? For me, these are complete devices with the advantage of being fully firmware-customizable, rather than traditional development boards. Also, did you have already the T-embed cc1101?

[@tubeDude48]

I REALLY like this project! But I have no idea what to do with the code to get this running. I don't know 'C' or how to compile.

[@VolosProjects]

So you never used Arduino Ide?

[@tubeDude48]

@@VolosProjects - I have for simple projects that just compiled a single program, but with I saw all of that code snippets on GitHub; I wouldn't know where to start. I mainly program in MicroPhython. But I always enjoy your projects, and comment!

[@tubeDude48]

@@VolosProjects - I have when it means 1 flat file, but seeing all that code, scares me off. I program in Micro Python. 😀 But I always comment on your code!

[@WEKXSU]

Hope you feature Arduino portenta in the future. Can you also link US link of your lilygo board so we can support you when we buy from lilygo

[@patrickwasp]

With the right firmware maybe that could be a good meshtastic device

[@jonathanreyesvite8354]

Can you connect and send files between two devices using Lora?

[@jensgoerke3819]

The development board is still inside, the T5 e-paper isn't a full "development system", more like a "development device".

[@aaronalquiza9680]

Yeah in my opinion T5 epaper pro is not a dev board anymore. it's a "programmable product" now, since they made it a bit "harder" to access the pins and modify firmware. but that's just my opinion. some may say you still have access to i2C and SDL/SDA pins but it feels still restrictive. if you open the case, are the gpio pins exposed and can be plugged with dupont wires?

[@VolosProjects]

I am not sure, probably not

[@drewtech2]

Love your videos. Having zero luck getting this to run on a normal T Display S3. Took quite a bit of fiddling to get it just to build. Had the wrong version of LVGL (9.2.2). Just tried version LVGL 8.4.0 maybe that is still too new? Takes a long time to compile too... Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated.

[@VolosProjects]

Yes ,you will need update you lilygo amoled librarues and downgrade lvgl, yes first compile take quite time

[@drewtech2]

@@VolosProjects After a lot of messing around, I did eventually get it to build but only got a black screen with the backlight on. The fist build issue I had was related to having the latest version of lvgl. It looks like the code was written for version 8.0.0 or older. It will not compile with the latest version of lvgl due to type mismatch: #if LV_VERSION_CHECK(8, 0, 0) const lv_font_t ui_font_M3 = { #else lv_font_t ui_font_M3 = { #endif Can you confirm which versions of lilygo amoled and lvgl you are using? Also, there seems to be some confusion over board type and board settings. If I select Lilygo T-Display-S3 it appears to not have PSRAM, the build errors out saying it doesn't exist. Can you confirm your board type and board settings? Thanks so much!

[@VolosProjects]

@@drewtech2 please fallow this instalation tutorial and it will work kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6fdYYuaiL6qoJo

[@drewtech2]

@@VolosProjects Sorry for being a noob. I watched the video, twice. I have the correct version of lvgl (8.3.11) and the correct version of ESP32 (2.0.17) and the latest TFT_eSPI (2.5.43). Board settings are as specified. I am able to build and download the code. I still just get a black screen. I can tell the backlight is on. I am not using a AMOLED version of the T-Display S3 Do I need to do something special to make this work with a regular T-Display S3?

[@VolosProjects]

@drewtech2 you are not using amoled version?

[@bernardmarx6705]

"No find SD card" 😂

[@BeTheGuitar]

Mmmm coffee

[@A_scope]

interesting i see the e-paper labeld as "nonwelded"😂... also no lora case or battery. images show the typical amount of gpio.

[@cmosarch5285]

Volo holds up the new board with the external antenna, and the older boards show higher db ratings :)

[@VolosProjects]

@@cmosarch5285 sorry, i dont understand you 😀

[@JanDahl]

Note that the numbers are negative so -60 is better than -70

[@rselvarajanMBA]

😂 Laughing at my own earlier comment which I deleted 😅

[@joehopfield]

Epaper sold out again

[@noobplayerbloxfruits]

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