Sergio Fernandez Santos

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9 years, 5 months ago.

How to interface esp8266 wifi module

I want to buy this wifi module http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/WiFi-Serial-Transceiver-Module-w-ESP8266-p-1994.html It utilizes serial interface and I would like to use it for compatible ethernetinterface library aplicaciont like websocket. How could I get it working?

Thank you.

5 Answers

Maarten Reekmans
9 years ago.

Hey Giovanni,

Are you still working on the WebSocket class? I would be interested in this as I would like to make an NTP client for my Nucleo F411RE.

Greetings,

Maarten

Yep! Unfortunately it isn't a socket porting so you should rewrite the ntp library

posted by Giovanni Bruno 30 Mar 2015

Hi Maarten, actually I'm working on Arduino IDE with esp8266. I hope to publish a first version of mbed library before May.

posted by Giovanni Bruno 14 Apr 2015
Stefan Wolfrum
8 years, 6 months ago.

Any news here? I, too, would like to make HTTP(S) requests in my mbed projects. I'm using an STMicroelectronics Nucleo F411RE board and the ESP8266-01 connected to Serial6 TX/RX. Is there already a library that allows me to make HTTP(S) requests instead of sending complicated AT commands to the ESP8266? Thanks a lot! Stefan.

I want to know about how to send complicated AT commands to the ESP8266.

posted by Thipawan Pairam 24 Jul 2017
Martin Kojtal
9 years, 5 months ago.

Hi,

that wifi chip is not yet supported. You can port it , the easiest way would be if the chips driver has bsd socket implementation. You can look at cc3000 wifi or wifly. cc3000 uses TI driver (bsd socket) and on top of it it's c++ driver with EthernetInterface API. Wifly for example is implemented directly using EthernetInterface using Serial.

Good to start https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Socket

Well, thank you for answering. I see how wifly works, simply sending serial commands so I feel it will the fastest way to rebuild this library, switching wifly serial commands for at commands. If anyone is interested It will be so helpful helping me. I want to use this module because I love building my own pcbs and I feel a total waste using a lpc800 and a temperature sensor (mcu=1$ and ds18b20=0.50$) together with a wifly (60$) or cc3000 (15$) in a thumb size pcb.

posted by Sergio Fernandez Santos 23 Oct 2014
Antonio Quevedo
9 years, 4 months ago.

Hello,

Check on my new library. It has only the basic commands, but it also has a function for sending any command you wish to. I will add more functions soon.

http://developer.mbed.org/users/quevedo/code/ESP8266/

Very nice work, I will follow it so close, btw, now I am using last version of esp8266 cloud update, I can't remenber the version number

posted by Sergio Fernandez Santos 17 Dec 2014
Giovanni Bruno
9 years ago.

Hi! I will release my ESP8266 & WebSocket class on April!

I used them in my home automation project ;)

www.facebook.com/alfredsys

Any news here? I, too, would like to make HTTP(S) requests in my mbed projects. I'm using an STMicroelectronics Nucleo F411RE board and the ESP8266-01 connected to Serial6 TX/RX. Is there already a library that allows me to make HTTP(S) requests instead of sending complicated AT commands to the ESP8266? Thanks a lot! Stefan.

posted by Stefan Wolfrum 18 Oct 2015