how usable is STA mode? about mavesp8266

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I'm having difficulties getting STA mode to actually function.

If I don't provide a static IP then it's practically impossible to connect to mavesp8266 because it sets the MDNS hostname to mavesp8266-, which IMHO makes no sense 'cause DNS is there to find the IP address, but now I need to know the IP address to find the DNS name.

If I comment out https://github.com/dogmaphobic/mavesp8266/blob/master/src/mavesp8266_vehicle.cpp#L59 (starting the serial) then it doesn't crash in STA mode. I am running without a pixracer connected (hard to load esp8266 firmware and troubleshoot when it's on the pixracer), so there's nothing sensible coming in on serial. But in AP mode it doesn't crash.

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I finally figured it out. Somehow the baud rate got set to 0 in the parameters. Possibly operator error... Would be good to have a check there 'cause Serial.begin(0) causes an exception.