Revision as of 22:20, 14 June 2016

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8266 can be programmed as every other arduino or in lua langage if you have the right firmware.

There is plenty of ESP8266 boards available.
The "ready made", brain free one is a devboard called nodemcu.
it's 3.3 V board.
It's a tiny board, with almost no memory, nice at home, but if you want reliable internet behavior, send the data to a real server.

you prefer the easy path : get one with lua firmware or upload it !
luatool is in python and just works with a lua firmware. Download source. You need pyserial : sudo easy_install pyserial
to flash the thing it's esptool : tutorial
lua firmware can be found

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 = Software =
-* Basically there is 2 main firmware paradigms :
+* Basically there is 2 main firmware paradigms Arduino/Lua
+* How to talk ? You can use a terminal i.e : screen /dev/tty.USB0 9600
+* Esplorer is great but use java.
+* 9600 is classical for nodemcu.
+* 115200 is classical for Wemos D1 mini
- * you want speed, realtime or love arduino : go to arduino IDE
+== Arduino ==
- * you prefer the easy path : get one with lua firmware or upload it !
-* How to talk ? You can use a terminal i.e : screen /dev/tty.USB0 9600
+* you want speed, realtime or love arduino
-* Esplorer is great but use java.
+* get the ESP8266 library for arduino and program the thing as usual.
+== Lua ==
+* you prefer the easy path : get one with lua firmware or upload it !
 * luatool is in python and just works with a lua firmware. Download [https://github.com/4refr0nt/luatool source]. You need pyserial : sudo easy_install pyserial
-* to flash the thing it's esptool : [http://www.whatimade.today/loading-the-nodemcu-firmware-on-the-esp8266-windows-guide/ tutorial]
+* to flash the thing it's esptool : [https://github.com/themadinventor/esptool tutorial]
+* lua firmware can be found
 = Links =