PJ,
It’s a good idea, although I am a UNIX guy at heart and have never liked Windows, although I wish I had got some shares when it was MSDOS. It would be a good way to address the security concern I mentioned, maybe I’ll get a PC emulator like parallels and run things within that.
I am more disappointed with the sensors because they all belonged to a kit I purchased, so I assumed it would be a safer bet than getting individual sensors. It turns out it isn’t.
As for Expressif systems pushing people to V5, Apple does the same thing. Once they release a new version of OSX, they invalidate the versions before it, making it nearly impossible to reload an older system from scratch. It is prime example of the human race shooting itself in the foot, someone should sue them for doing that too.
I will take another look at the display today and try to figure out how to get it running with the breadcrumbs I got in this post, including your super useful one with the versions!
I also need to get the IR working, so I will try chasing Seeed Studios support and Grove support too.
On a different note, have you or anybody else here successfully got a temperature/humidity sensor working? Could you share with me the type, the code, and the environment you used? It’s one of the projects I really want to work on here.
I spent more than $300 on all this kit over the past two months, and the only success story I have is a DIY security camera that can upload images to the cloud.