Are any of you TI engineers/employees on IRC? If so, what server and channel?
It's been over a month since I posted a reply to a thread I started, giving and requesting further information, and nobody has contacted me.
It seems that for many questions on this subforum, when something pops up that may potentially be seen as negative for the CC3100/CC3200 products, the engineers simply do not reply. It is only my guess that the engineers here do not want to say 'no,' or make public a comment which could be seen in a negative light.
However, the amount of support given on my company's chosen microcontroller, the TI TM4C1294NCPDT, has seen great support - and by a single individual at that - Amit Ashara, on the appropriate forum. My many kudos to him. The response to not only mine, but many others' requests for information beyond the regular 'run-of-the-mill' question, has seemed lackluster at best. Given the chance, I would have probably gone with another provider for my WiFi needs.
C'est la vie, for now I am stuck. I will make do with what I can; if I have to write a WiFi stack, so be it. I have learned many things from this excursion.
It would help to have somebody on IRC. Don't get me wrong, E-Mail can work, sure. In comparison, IRC can provide much more information at a much faster pace; though I would like others in a Research & Development situation to be able to see the responses here - or lack thereof - for posterity.
The IoT and IIoT will breathe much needed life into many areas of industry, regardless of country. It is my personal hope that it will create the paradigm shift necessary to allow all of us to follow the passions we so choose, in an easy manner. With the vast majority of our chips provided by Texas Instruments, it's very frustrating to pour over so many posts for information in other TI forums - and obtain a solution - then get no/minimal reply from this one.
I have a backup plan ready, one which can support up to 6,000 nodes, is self-routing, low power, with open source code available, from 2012, at $5.50/unit: the nRF24L01. Knowing that, I want to stay loyal to Texas Instruments, even if the only reason being is that I went through math classes in highschool with a TI-83.
