I got my PicoCalc yesterday and played with it for a little while, but this morning, I decided to install a Pico W and after flashing it with the correct uf2 file on the SD card, it boots up fine, but when I tried mmbasic commands for WiFi, it didn’t work. I looked at GitHub for the available builds and don’t see one for Pico W. Has anyone gotten this working? Essentially I think it is just WebMite, but I figure there is some work to make it work with the screen and keyboard of the PicoCalc.
I’ve not tried a Pico W yet, but are you using the .uf2 files from the SD card? I couldn’t get any pre-built .uf2 files that are in the GitHub to work.
Which .uf2 files would benefit from the Wifi at this point?
1 Like
I used the uf2 files on the SD card, but apparently, at least the PicoMite version, doesn’t have the WebMite stuff in it. Not exactly sure where I’ll use it yet, but I figure I’d rather have it than not have it and I’m sure I’ll come up with something. :-p
WebMite is built from the same source as PicoMite but with different flags … plus it would need patching for the PicoCalc hardware.
Outside of the PicoCalc ecosystem there are TWELVE MMBasic firmwares in total for the Pico/Pico2 which optimise for different use-cases (LCD vs. VGA vs. HDMI, Web vs No Web, USB host vs. no USB host).
Tom.
1 Like
I may look into getting WebMite working for the PicoCalc. First I’ll wait and see if someone more qualified does it. ;-p
One use for WiFi is to read the time off a timer server to set the Pico’s clock whenever you boot up. The command is
Web ntp n
where n is an offset from GMT. In my case (New York) I use -4 since we’re four hours earlier than GMT during Daylight Saving Time.
2 Likes