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MarkIngle

Wow! I don't believe it...finally a good ole southern boy! Welcome! I have been working with esp8266 and I love it. Very powerful hardware! I haven't played around with ESPEasy for awhile but let me know if you need some help. Here is a tutorial I put together over at OpenHAB: https://community.open...

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No movement on this at all. There is no library that supports emailing from the ESP8266 using the Arduino IDE. At least not that I could find. I used OpenHAB to get it working. Sorry!!

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Would you mind sharing some details on your setup? I have a ESP12E Dev board and I am trying to do the same thing with a temp sensor. Currently I am not getting any readings from the sensor...only zeros! One thing that is strange is that I don't have any options for ROM..the drop down list is zero. ...

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Thanks! Will do! I will need to install the setup on my Windows 7 laptop since the arduino.esp8266.com site is down. I only have 1.6.4 on my Mac.

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I think the effort is worth it. I can think of several use cases where the ESP and a smartphone alone can offer "making life easier" opportunities. Keeping the memory footprint low and optimized would be good. Let me know how I can help test

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I think the layout and color is great! Below are some recommendations after reviewing the samples. 1. The titles above the input text box probably should be a different color...the shade of blue tends to blend in with the black background so I had to focus in to read the titles. More contracting col...

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Yeah that makes sense...guess I am complicating things! Where can I find the 104 plug-in reference in the code sample?

I am not making any progress at all and I have other ideas I would like to try out.

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I agree. But I try to architect solutions with minimum service dependencies. In short, the more parts that make up a software solution the more opportunity for breakage and failure. Just a personal thing. I'm gonna grab some dinner and try a few more things. I'll let you know but I sense the ESP wif...

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Does your recommendation require a broker?

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This is tough. I cannot find a library that will work with the ESP!

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It would be useful for me to ....Email me when my garage door opens between working hours?!?? Send an email when my tool box is opened I can think of several more. These are situations where it's only for a short period of time. When I'm fishing it would be great to know if someone opens the rod box...

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How do I learn the plugin architecture?

Your suggestion sounds reasonable but I'm not sure where to start

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Step 4 ----- The following header files need to be added to the ESPEasy.ino file: #include <SPI.h> #include <Ethernet.h> The first time I complied with these headers I received the following compile error: In file included from C:\Users\MultirotorGCS\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardwa...

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Below is the result.......

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Step 3 ----- First I need to add a variable to hold the email address entered. I choose to add to the SettingsStruct (some lines have been removed in this post) that is located in the ESPEasy.ino file struct SettingsStruct { unsigned long PID; int Version; byte Unit; byte Controller_IP[4]; unsigned ...

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To explain the 'flash' command..... You will be prompted for several values(input). Comport - The comport you set for Arduino probably but definiely the comport you have your ESP connected to. Flash size - This is the size you set in the Arduino IDE....Tool>Flash Size....my is 4M or 4096 Build (exam...

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Step 2 --- Compiling the ESP code is not too hard but you need to make sure that you pull the code and the libraries that are specific to the bundle. This bundle is currently located on sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/espeasy/files/ESPEasy_R78.zip/download Download this zip file and mak...

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I thought it would be a good idea to post the progress on my latest project here. My project is to create an interface for entering an email address on the ESP Config page and using that email address to send alerts when a sensor is tripped. I will be using a HC-SR04 sensor that I already have worki...

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Thanks Costo! I thought the other zip files were older versions of bin files. I should have taken the time to look and not make an assumption. It might be worthwhile to rename the zip files to something more descriptive. Rev_78_binfiles.zip Rev_48_sourcefile.zip etc Regardless I really appreciate th...

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I did see that in the wiki but its just a zip file that contain the bin files (rev 78) for flashing the ESP with ESP Easy. Its work really well but I am now to a point that I want to customize the code.

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I am working o compile the latest ESP branch from git but I am getting compile errors on missing header files.... PubSubClient.h ArduinoJson.h LiquidCystali2c.h ..... is there another library of files that need to be downloaded? Or do I just need to work though the missing header files and download ...

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Ye ole loose connection got me! Its working!!!! Yahhhoo!!

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Hello gentlemen! I have been getting a little frustrated so I thought I would reachout for some help! I am getting "no reading" in the logs for my hcsr04 setup. After tying different GPIOs for Trigger and Echo I thought I would post something to see if someone could offer some troubleshoot...

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My Mac was running Mosquitto as the broker and it is using MQTT 3.1 It was installed using Homebrew. I tried to figure out how to get a more recent version of mosquitto installed but was not able to do so. Until then I am using test.mosguitto.org as a broker and I have the LED working (ON/OFF) via o...

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Yeah the code is fine....I am just learning and misunderstood the root of my problem. This post can be deleted.

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After changed protocol to mqtt domoticz I noticed that all my nodemcu (v2 i v3) have some problem with broker (mosquitto) connection. From time to time (1 hour) I see something as: 1455311799: Client ESPClient1 has exceeded timeout, disconnecting. 1455311799: Socket error on client ESPClient1, disc...

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I was way off on posting this entry. Sorry if I confused anyone...the answer to my problem can be found here:

http://www.esp8266.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=813

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SOLVED

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I dont mind changing the topic to SOLVED once I get the LED working. But what about the issue of compatibility with MQTT? How should that be tracked? Or is it just not worth it?

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I found this post that explains what is going on. Not sure I completely understand how to resolve the MQTT 3.1/3.1.1 version issue. So its a compatibility problem between Rev 78 and Mosquitto 1.4.7 which is using MQTT 3.1...at least this is how I understand it. Someone please correct me if this is i...

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After working through my firewall issues I was able to get some logging. I decided to move my troubleshooting to my Mac mini and it paid in getting more information. Below is a log file showing a successful connection between a mosquito_sub client(10.0.1.6) connected to the mosquito broker service o...

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I have logging tuned on but nothing is being posted to the log file. I also have the ESP DEbug level set to 4. Here is the log info from the ESP....hopefully someone will see something. At this point I dont whatelse to check ets Jan 8 2013,rst cause:2, boot mode:(3,7) load 0x4010f000, len 1264, room...

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That does help Bert! Thanks for the info on the URL cmd....thats a good way to test connections prior testing via web app, etc

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I finally figured out how to get the mosquitto log files created. At this point I am only get a service startup message. My lab in environment is really simple I have the broker service running on my laptop. The laptop and ESP are on the same wifi network and I can ping the ESP. I will do more testi...

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To make sure I understand . GPIO16 is the blue LED on my dev board not the blue LED on the ESP8266 board. Correct?

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That's a problem too. I cannot figure out where the logs are located or even if logging is enabled. I'm running the broker on Windows 7

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Yes the original problem is solved.

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I am not able to connect to my MQTT broker (Mosquitto). But it appears to be related to the clientid setting in the ESP EASY code. The following message is being displayed in the serial monitor: INIT : Booting Build nr:78 WIFI : Connecting... 1 WIFI : Connected! INIT : I2C MQTT : Failed to connected...

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Thanks for posting this! Now if I can just figure it out for Windows 7!

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I am having the same problem. Rel 78 using mossquito broker. I am at a loss as to what the problem is and how to troubleshoot INIT : Booting Build nr:78 WIFI : Connecting... 1 WIFI : Connected! INIT : I2C MQTT : Failed to connected to broker MQTT : Failed to connected to broker INIT : Boot OK INIT :...

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Hello Nuno! I just got my openhab setup today and I am also using Arduino. Welcome to the group. I'm a new member as well.

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Wow! Great idea Andy! One could see all the info on their smart phone!

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Definitely! Thanks for reaching out! I have a thousand ideas but gotta get some knowledge under my belt. I'm working with esp12e dev board using Arduino ide. Started with lua based firmware but feel like there was more support for Arduino. Either is really cool though.

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Greetings! I'm new to this world too but I have made some progress. Let me if I can help. I'm not an expert but two is better than one!

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I think I figured out how to turn on the blue LED. I set sda and scl to gpio16 and set pin mode to low. For some reason I have to reboot to enable the setting.....reloads the settings in flash? I hope that I understand this correctly. Really cool stuff. If I can figure out how to reduce volt 5 to 3....

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Hello all! Complete newbie here to home automation and esp8266. I have ESP Easy running on my dev kit and noticed the "Hardware Settings" page appears to have a way to set GPIO to low o high. Is it possible to make the blue LED (either on the board or on the 8266) turn on/off by changing t...

MarkIngle

Hello everyone! My name is Mark Ingle. I just received a ESP12E dev kit (as a gift) and I have been playing around with it for several days. What a powerful little device! I have flashed with lua and Arduino but I think Arduino may have more promise for leveraging community development. Any way I ju...

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