Arduino-ESP8266

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Install in Arduino IDE

Installation



Select Board

Esp8266 arduino selection.png

Supported Board - Choose correct board

  • Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 (ESP-12)
  • NodeMCU 0.9
  • NodeMCU 1.0
  • Olimex MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV
  • Olimex MOD-WIFI-ESP8266
  • SparkFun ESP8266 Thing
  • SweetPea ESP-210
  • Generic ESP8266 modules

Upload Options

  • Please see the guideline image on the right, this will be used in esp flash download tool, arduino IDE, etc
Option value for ESP-12F Description
Boards Generic ESP8266 Modules -
flash mode QIO or DIO -
crystal frequency 26mhz -
flash frequency 40mhz -
CPU frequency 80mhz -
upload using "serial" -
flash size 4MB / 32Mbit (3M SPIFSS) Old 512Kbit
Debug mode / level Disable / none -
reset mode none or nodemcu -
upload speed 115200 ~ 921600 use highest normally
upload port COM Port -
lwip Variant v2 lower memory
Buildin LED 2 -
Erase Flash Only Sketch

Upload

  • enter into bootloader mode of the board first

Code Examples

Default arduino sketch

  • WifiScan - find close by wifi spot
  • WifiClient - connect to wifi
  • Wifiwebserver - build a simple web server
http://server_ip/gpio/0 - address to set gpio 2 to low
http://server_ip/gpio/1 - address to set gpio 2 to high

Other sketch - 1 - ESP8266-Arduino via serial, control GPIO

Other sketch - ESP8266-Arduino via serial, send TCP data

  • Connect WIFI, Send Data
  • In this case, the wifi module still connect to hardware serial (software serial port can not higher than 19200 baud rate), and another software serial port should be created on arduino and print out via another serial port
  • So the connection should be
Wifi's uart to arduino hardware uart; 
arduino's software UART to another serial port device, for example like FTDI basic, CP2102 breakout, etc, and this serial port device can connect to PC to read data

Demo code - [[* More esp8266 arduino library, demo code find on our github|D1 Mini example code]]