on one of my other regularly visited forums that i use (and no doubt a good few members here are from too lol) just had this posted by a member and i thought i would share it here just in case it is usefull for others.
a BASIC flasher has been created for the esp modules which hopefully will be easier for most of us limited programmers who cringe of the thought of learning new different languages like LUA ( me ).
i have a couple of these and was going to leave them on the long project list somewhere near the bottom but now i may have to push them up a few places once i have done a bit more reading and learning lol.
tony
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@Tony is would great to get a Great Cow BASIC driver developed. Are you up to helping getting to developed? I have a few of the those in my lab but trying to sort the release has distracted from developing the driver?
@All. Anyone else got a working program we can port?
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geez i am getting well behind responding to people lol.
at the moment i have only been playing with the device using the AT commands and terminal/FTDI and as yet have to integrate it with one of my pics to take charge of using it.
i will have to get on that soon so i can integrate it with a pic onto my cctv's rs485 network for the ares that i cant get to with wires.
i dont have a clue how to put together a good driver or how to go about starting something like that but if you can send me some random usefull files of some description to give me an idea id give it a whirl seeing as they have been bumped up the project list now.
you have a lab lol im jealous, i have a 6 X 8.5 FT broom cupboard and i have to share it with a pantry and shelving rack, i couldnt even swing a cat in here if i tried hahaha sigh i need more room :P
tony
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Re the lab. The RSPCA (see here told me that I could not swing a cat in my old lab so I had to move to the basement! (this is a joke!! Not really true).
Before you start the journey to writing a driver that we can all use - ping me first. I am thinking of writing a little guide. We need one as writers need to get to grips with concepts that one does not normally have to deal with.
Good luck with the AT commands!
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So......
It's been a year. Any progress on using one of the low cost esp8266 modules with GCBasic and a pic?
For starters, I'd like to use one to acess NTP for an accurate self setting internet clock.
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The esp8266 basic is pretty cool. You could easily do a net clock with it and send the data from the esp to a pic using serial. I made a quick little esp net clock using just the esp8266-01 (8 pin unit) and an I2C display (nothing else but power supply). This was done a while back before Mike added the use of arrays, so the code can certainly be a bit more elegant. It was written in V2 and now he has V3 out which is waaaaay better, but this clock is still running perfectly sync'ed. Here is the link to it....
on one of my other regularly visited forums that i use (and no doubt a good few members here are from too lol) just had this posted by a member and i thought i would share it here just in case it is usefull for others.
http://www.esp8266basic.com/
a BASIC flasher has been created for the esp modules which hopefully will be easier for most of us limited programmers who cringe of the thought of learning new different languages like LUA ( me ).
i have a couple of these and was going to leave them on the long project list somewhere near the bottom but now i may have to push them up a few places once i have done a bit more reading and learning lol.
tony
@Tony is would great to get a Great Cow BASIC driver developed. Are you up to helping getting to developed? I have a few of the those in my lab but trying to sort the release has distracted from developing the driver?
@All. Anyone else got a working program we can port?
geez i am getting well behind responding to people lol.
at the moment i have only been playing with the device using the AT commands and terminal/FTDI and as yet have to integrate it with one of my pics to take charge of using it.
i will have to get on that soon so i can integrate it with a pic onto my cctv's rs485 network for the ares that i cant get to with wires.
i dont have a clue how to put together a good driver or how to go about starting something like that but if you can send me some random usefull files of some description to give me an idea id give it a whirl seeing as they have been bumped up the project list now.
you have a lab lol im jealous, i have a 6 X 8.5 FT broom cupboard and i have to share it with a pantry and shelving rack, i couldnt even swing a cat in here if i tried hahaha sigh i need more room :P
tony
These postings have my ATtention...
Re the lab. The RSPCA (see here told me that I could not swing a cat in my old lab so I had to move to the basement! (this is a joke!! Not really true).
Before you start the journey to writing a driver that we can all use - ping me first. I am thinking of writing a little guide. We need one as writers need to get to grips with concepts that one does not normally have to deal with.
Good luck with the AT commands!
So......
It's been a year. Any progress on using one of the low cost esp8266 modules with GCBasic and a pic?
For starters, I'd like to use one to acess NTP for an accurate self setting internet clock.
Nothing that I have seen. However; I have Ethernet driver with NTP working so should not be hard.
The esp8266 basic is pretty cool. You could easily do a net clock with it and send the data from the esp to a pic using serial. I made a quick little esp net clock using just the esp8266-01 (8 pin unit) and an I2C display (nothing else but power supply). This was done a while back before Mike added the use of arrays, so the code can certainly be a bit more elegant. It was written in V2 and now he has V3 out which is waaaaay better, but this clock is still running perfectly sync'ed. Here is the link to it....
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=7285
and a short video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCv0o4aUWtc
Last edit: viscomjim 2016-12-06
I've posted a simple demo in the Demos section