I have always wanted to get a couple of my GCB projects to work on my wifi network, but this has proven to be a challenge as some of you might have experienced. I have come across using a serial port on a pic to communicate with the esp8266 using the AT commands. However this becomes a bit daughting at times. I have recently come across Annex WiFi RDS and still using the serial connection to my pic projects, the simplicity of using virtually the same BASIC language as GCB, I have a couple of my GCB projects being controlled by a web page for the first time ever, albiet very simplicticly, but a good start...
There are built in buttons and text fields that can be easily implemented. So far, so good just using serial comms. Especailly the ease of sending time and date data synced from the internet. Might be a good companion with GCB. Just putting it out there....
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I gave up interfacing the ESP8266 to a PIC via the AT commands and just started programming the ESPs in the Arduino software - fewer components and more control over what you can/cannot do. It seemed a bit daft using a microcontroller to control another microcontroller...
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I have gave up also - I found that AT commands would not natively support a web server.. you had to manaully start the web interrface and the LAU.... memory holes and crashes.
I still have all the code, things may be better now.
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I have always wanted to get a couple of my GCB projects to work on my wifi network, but this has proven to be a challenge as some of you might have experienced. I have come across using a serial port on a pic to communicate with the esp8266 using the AT commands. However this becomes a bit daughting at times. I have recently come across Annex WiFi RDS and still using the serial connection to my pic projects, the simplicity of using virtually the same BASIC language as GCB, I have a couple of my GCB projects being controlled by a web page for the first time ever, albiet very simplicticly, but a good start...
It was just recently introduced.
https://sites.google.com/site/annexwifi/home
There are built in buttons and text fields that can be easily implemented. So far, so good just using serial comms. Especailly the ease of sending time and date data synced from the internet. Might be a good companion with GCB. Just putting it out there....
The ESP8266 is a bit old now, ESP32 is the replacement although it's more expensive.
Some other demos and code for the ESP8266 with GCB here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gcbasic/discussion/demonstrationcode/thread/e9d4ecdf/
I gave up interfacing the ESP8266 to a PIC via the AT commands and just started programming the ESPs in the Arduino software - fewer components and more control over what you can/cannot do. It seemed a bit daft using a microcontroller to control another microcontroller...
I have gave up also - I found that AT commands would not natively support a web server.. you had to manaully start the web interrface and the LAU.... memory holes and crashes.
I still have all the code, things may be better now.