glynhudson / EmonESP

ESP8266 WIFI serial to emoncms link

EmonESP

ESP8266 WIFI serial to emoncms link

Installation

1. Install ESP for Arduino with Boards Manager

From: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

Starting with 1.6.4, Arduino allows installation of third-party platform packages using Boards Manager. ESP Arduino packages are available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (32 and 64 bit).

• Install Arduino 1.6.8 from the Arduino website.
• Start Arduino and open Preferences window.
• Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into Additional Board Manager URLs field. You can add multiple URLs, separating them with commas.
• Open Boards Manager from Tools > Board menu and install esp8266 platform (and don't forget to select your ESP8266 board from Tools > Board menu after installation).

2. Install ESP filesystem file uploader

From: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/filesystem.md

• Download the tool: https://github.com/esp8266/arduino-esp8266fs-plugin/releases/download/0.2.0/ESP8266FS-0.2.0.zip.
• In your Arduino sketchbook directory, create tools directory if it doesn't exist yet
• Unpack the tool into tools directory (the path will look like <home_dir>/Arduino/tools/ESP8266FS/tool/esp8266fs.jar)
• Restart Arduino

3. Compile and Upload

• Open EmonESP.ino in the Arduino IDE.
• Compile and Upload as normal
• Upload home.html web page using the ESP8266 Sketch Data Upload tool under Arduino tools.

Licence

GNU General Public License