Esp8266 help

[Leon90xs]

hello guys waiting for the esp8266 to arrive, I'm seeing how to weld and create a box, as explained on https://github.com/stooged/PS4-Server-900u/blob/main/README.md. I wanted to share these changes with you, and if anyone understands them more than me, to see if they are right. I wanted to apply a usb in the circuit, or add a female usb right inside the box, in case I had to update the image for the exploit, I'm a beginner in this

 

[SapphireExile]

Not going to lie, this is the absolute most stupid way I can see anyone going about this. Why not use the esp natively? Why a reed switch? Why a USB if the chip itself *already has USB headers*?

What are you trying to do here besides have wires floating around needlessly?

 

[KokoseiJ]

Not going to lie, this is the absolute most stupid way I can see anyone going about this. Why not use the esp natively? Why a reed switch? Why a USB if the chip itself *already has USB headers*?

What are you trying to do here besides have wires floating around needlessly?

Reading a github README gives us pretty clear explanation about what they're trying to achieve here, it's basically to control the power that goes into USB drive with switch so that you could simulate replugging USB wirelessly using Arduino. Not necessary but a decent feature.

About the circuit- I think it would indeed work, but I'm worried that sudden power loss while rw might damage the drive...

You should take the relay controlling code and actually test it on a real hardware to see if it works reliably.

 

[SapphireExile]

Reading a github README gives us pretty clear explanation about what they're trying to achieve here, it's basically to control the power that goes into USB drive with switch so that you could simulate replugging USB wirelessly using Arduino. Not necessary but a decent feature.

About the circuit- I think it would indeed work, but I'm worried that sudden power loss while rw might damage the drive...

You should take the relay controlling code and actually test it on a real hardware to see if it works reliably.

I can see that. You can also do literally all of that with the 8266 by itself with no extra wiring, including USB host mode for showing the corrupted ExFAT partition. Hence why I said this has to be one of the most stupid ways of doing that when the device itself can do all of it directly.

 

[Leon90xs]

I can see that. You can also do literally all of that with the 8266 by itself with no extra wiring, including USB host mode for showing the corrupted ExFAT partition. Hence why I said this has to be one of the most stupid ways of doing that when the device itself can do all of it directly.

I'm not familiar with these things, maybe you can explain yourself better, so I can understand what to do

 

[KokoseiJ]

I can see that. You can also do literally all of that with the 8266 by itself with no extra wiring, including USB host mode for showing the corrupted ExFAT partition. Hence why I said this has to be one of the most stupid ways of doing that when the device itself can do all of it directly.

Actually just checked the repo again, and it seems that we were both confused as to what that board is. that board is in fact ESP8266, just programmed using Arduino Sketch...

So yeah, that guy does use ESP8266 to accomplish all the things. we were both wrong.