Disable ad-block.
Disable Apple Captive (required for some Apple devices):
- Settings
- WiFi
- [You FlinBIT's SSID/name]
- Little blue
(i)icon - Switch off automatic login
- Ensure that you are connected to your FlinBIT's WiFi hotspot and have mobile data turned off and/or ethernet disconnected.
- Go to http://flinbit.com/ (if this fails, try http://192.168.1.1/ instead)
- Use the web page to control your FlinBIT
To send a message to your FlinBIT, type the message in the Serial Message text box, then press the Send button next to it.
Messages beginning with a / are commands.
- Arduino sends raw data to FlinBIT
- WiFi device (phone/computer/tablet) tells FlinBIT to begin loggin
- FlinBIT copies all messages from the Arduino to a file
- Files can be accessed by pressing the
View Logsbutton, or going to http://flinbit.com/logs/ (http://192.168.1.1/logs/) while connected to your FlinBIT
Data logger will ignore serial messages beginning with /.
Data logger will store all other raw serial data directly into a .txt file.
When you log into your FlinBIT you will have the option to view the incomming data stream in the data plotter.
To hide or show the data plotter, press the Plotter button at the top of the page.
To enable or disable the data plotter, tick or untick the Plot Data tick box.
To clear all data from the plotter, press the Clear Plotter button.
When using the data plotter, the data must be formatted as a comma separated list (eg 1,2,3,4).
The plotter will count the number of data points in the first message, all following messages should contain the same number of data points.
Pressing Clear Plotter will reset the number of data points.
/set background <JavaScript color>: changes the background color of the web page (not saved).
/set foreground <JavaScript color>: changes the foreground color of the web page (not saved).
/store <filename> <parameter>: Stores/changes parameters such as SSID (filename = /SSID.txt) and password (filename = /password.txt)
/logstart append <filename>: Same as pressing the Start Logging button with Overwrite set. Makes the FlinBIT start logging message to the specified file. If the file already exists, it will be appended to.
/logstart overwrite <filename>: Same as pressing the Start Logging button with Overwrite set. Makes the FlinBIT start logging message to the specified file. If the file already exists, it will be deleted first.
/logstop: Same as pressing the Stop Logging button. Makes the FlinBIT stop logging message to file.
/logclear: Clears all log files off the FlinBIT. !!WARNING: THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE!!
/plotter show: Show the data plotter.
/plotter hide: Hide the data plotter.
/plotter toggle: Toggle the data plotter. Same as pressing the Plotter button.
/plotter clear: Clear all data from the data plotter.
/monitor show: Show the serial monitor.
/monitor hide: Hide the serial monitor.
/monitor toggle: Toggle the serial monitor. Same as pressing the Monitor button.
/monitor clear: Clear the serial monitor. Same as pressing the Clear Monitor button.
/monitor set autoscroll [true/false]: Enable or disable autoscroll in the serial monitor. Same as checking/unchecking the Autoscroll check box.
/logger show: Hide the logger controlls.
/logger hide: Show the logger controlls.
/logger toggle: Toggle the logger controlls. Same as pressing the Logger button.
/logger running: Sent from the FlinBIT to any connected devices to tell them that the FlinBIT is currently logging messages to file.
/logger notrunning: Sent from the FlinBIT to any connected devices to tell them that the FlinBIT is not currently logging messages to file.
/islogging: Ask the FlinBIT if it currently logging message to file. FlinBIT should reply with either /logger running or /logger notrunning.
The FlinBIT has been tested to work with Arduino 1.8.8, with version 2.5.0 of the ESP8266 board libraries.
When programming the FlinBIT shield ensure that the settings are as follows:
Board: LOLIN(WEMOS) D1 R2 & mini
Upload Speed: 921600
CPU Frequency: 80 MHz
Flash Size: 4M (3M SPIFFS)
Debug Port: Disabled
Debug Level: None
lwIP Variant: v2 Lower Memory
VTables: Flash
Exceptions: Disabled
Erase Flash: Only Sketch
Programmer: AVRISP mkII
When programming the Arduino Nano included with the FlinBIT ensure that the settings are as follows:
Board: Arduino Nano
Processor: ATmega328P (Old Bootloader)
Programmer: AVRISP mkII
The included Example project for the FlinBIT's Arduino Nano sends out accelerometer and light values to the serial port, which can be easily read on the FlinBIT web interface
FlinBITWiFi is the firmware for the FlinBIT's ESP8266.
The SPIFFS upload tool is require to upload the website to the ESP8266.
Rebuilding the SPIFFS data requires GNU Make and gzip (available on most Linux distros).
Simply run $ make from the project root directory to rebuild the SPIFFS data from the FlinBITWiFi/web directory