30 november 2021

[m431k3]

An update about the android app thing: no, it still doesn't work. Spent the entire monday figuring out why the app kept crashing directly after startup. Crashes can be caused by anything, and I don't have clear feedback from the device I'm testing the app on to see what's wrong. For some reason, it seems it cant find a certain object (a textview) for a given reference. Even Stackoverflow can't answer some of my questions anymore.

Did things go better today, then? Well... Last week, I tried to make two ZigBee modules hooked up to ESP32's communicate with each other. Through serial communication, it finally worked, until I changed the code so it would return the PWM value of a digital pin. And then, it didn't work. It looks like I'll have to get really deeply into AT commands, to make sure that the modules can see and communicate with each other. Yay.

Figured I might as well treat myself to some black friday shopping. Bought a new SSD for my laptop, since the one I have right now is a bit small. Tried to clone the drive to the new SSD today, but the disk manager wouldn't initalize the disk, only gave the error "fatal device hardware error". Most solutions on the internet only work for drives that have already been initialized. There is a chance that the SSD was dead on arrival. Not really in the mood to go through the process of returning it.