Frustrating Board - Cannot get started

[jimmie]

I would appreciate the community's help as I have never had that much trouble getting any micro to run.

Several sites say use www.wipy.io to connect to the board. I then found out after poking around that it is www.pycom.io

I have been able to upgrade the firmware. I have also been able to access the board using IP 192.168.4.1.

I am unable to get the board to hook up to my Wifi as apparently boot.py has an error as reported by Pymakr. I have attached the file I am using and would appreciate any help.0_1539733658707_boot.py

[cmisztur]

Which CPU and board did you get?

https://docs.pycom.io/

[jimmie]

@cmisztur Wipy 3.0 and Expansion Board 3.0.

Was able to run the RGB example but cannot run the attached boot.py

[jimmie]

@cmisztur

I was able to run the attached boot.py. However, when I uploaded to the board, I get an error:

Connecting to a Pycom device...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "boot.py", line 4, in <module>
NameError: name '​' is not defined
Pycom MicroPython 1.18.1.r1 [v1.8.6-849-b0520f1] on 2018-08-29; WiPy with ESP32
Type "help()" for more information.
>>>

or

>>> Running c:\Users\ttc\Desktop\boot.py

>>>
>>>
♦Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 13, in <module>
OSError: the requested operation is not possible
♦>
Pycom MicroPython 1.18.1.r1 [v1.8.6-849-b0520f1] on 2018-08-29; WiPy with ESP32
Type "help()" for more information.
>>>
>>>

[cmisztur]

@jimmie looks like you have some nonprintable characters in there.

https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php

[jimmie]

@cmisztur

Thank you.

Those are just spaces and carriage returns/line feeds ..

[jimmie]

@cmisztur

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I have never seen this before as I always copy the code to notepad first to get rid of unprintable characters. Not sure what the U+200B is?!

It is working now after getting rid of that character..

[cmisztur]

@jimmie glad that copy and paste is your biggest problem :)