EasyTransfer for ESP8266

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, ESP8266 SDK13 Comments on EasyTransfer for ESP8266

I’m going to describe here the transmitting side of the EasyTransfer system as used in Arduino – the reason I did this was because I wanted to ship a bunch of binary data from the ESP8266 to the Arduino where I have a nice little wall mounted LCD display –…

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ESP8266 Mesh

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, ESP8266 SDK8 Comments on ESP8266 Mesh

Here it is – the ESP8266 Mesh English doc – who will be first to get this going? http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=929   The Chinese docs have been out for some time as has the mesh SDK but the English docs just came out today – have fun.

ESP8266 Arduino NetIO Server Demo

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, ESP8266 SDK, Espressif6 Comments on ESP8266 Arduino NetIO Server Demo

This week as regular readers know I was far away from our little home in Spain – in fact I was at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  in Boston, helping promote ESP8266 technology (why? because I could). Along the way I met up with Ivan Grokhotkov who as some of…

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FAB11 – Boston

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, ESP8266 SDK, FAB112 Comments on FAB11 – Boston

This coming Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday I’ll be working with Espressif CEO Swee-Ann Teo,  Jeroen Domburg, Ivan Grokkhotkov and others at FAB11 in Boston – demonstrating how to use the ESP8266 chips in home control and other applications. Heading off from Alicante (Spain) first thing in the morning tomorrow (Sunday) and arriving late…

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ESP8266 Reliability and ID

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, ESP8266 SDK9 Comments on ESP8266 Reliability and ID

Questions for you C programming ESP8266 guys re: the ESP SDK (1.2.0) and some possibly important info on WIFI and MQTT reliability. In the SDK: wifi_station_set_hostname wifi_station_get_hostname HOST ID….  If you do an IP scan on a windows network – ESP units will coming up as IP addresses – and…

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Hackitt and Bodgitt discover Healthy Lighting

Peter Scargillcolour temperature, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-210, Kelvin, Led Lighting16 Comments on Hackitt and Bodgitt discover Healthy Lighting

There has been a lot of talk in the press recently about the colour of lighting and it’s relevance to health. As far back as 2012, the BBC reported that NASA were to test “space-sleep colour-changing lights” on the international space station and since then there have been a number…

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Accessing ESP8266 Arrays in FLASH

Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, Flash23 Comments on Accessing ESP8266 Arrays in FLASH

A new challenge – the answer to which I will post in here. Accessing an ESP8266 C array in FLASH – i.e. never touching RAM until you actually access something.  One suggestion was to ensure you use 4-byte variables.. so I tried this – it compiled – the array is…

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Pebble Time

Peter ScargillPebble Time

Just a slight diversion to tell you about my new Pebble Time watch.  Pebble as you may be aware brought out a Kickstarter project some time ago which did well, a watch based on the same technology used in the Kindles – a black and white display that uses no…

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Lua Revisited

Peter ScargillEclipse, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-12E, ESP-13, ESP-201, ESP-210, ESP12, ESP8266, LUA, MQTT12 Comments on Lua Revisited

Back in the dark ages when the ESP8266 was something new, I had a go at the nodeMCU software, essentially implementing the Lua language (or a subset of it) on the ESP8266.  At the time I was not familiar with Lua but thanks to some of the excellent resources out…

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