I backed this on Crowd Supply because I’ve been doing some ESP32 work for a commercial client (not related to SuperHouse) over the last 12 months, and on their wish-list is PoE with ESP32. It looks like they’ll be shipping soon so I’m keen to see how well they work.
Last June I did most of the schematic and started the PCB layout for an ESP32 board with PoE and a pair of I/O Breakout headers (IDC12) but never got back to doing the routing. It’s something I’d personally find useful though so it’s still on my list.
It doesn’t seem that the WESP32 allows “OTA” (“OTWire?”) firmware updates. Does anyone here know if that is the case? This would be a killer device if it could. I’ve looked at Ether10 and EtherMega as well, but getting OTA firmware reflashing would be a challenge.
Nice! I got my DHL notification today - I’d assume there is a good chance you’ve already ordered something from Mouser, who’ve acquired Crowd Supply. Maybe their logistics system might have you covered off already?
The Westp32 is $55 USD, and according to its page its closest competitor is about $20 USD but has several major shortcomings. Anybody know of something in-between?
The research I did on it made it sound like the PoE aspect wasn’t quite to spec so while it worked it wouldn’t be as robust as it should be. Perhaps it was a criticism of the power isolation?
- I’d assume there is a good chance you’ve already ordered something from Mouser, who’ve acquired Crowd Supply. Maybe their logistics system might have you covered off already?
