ESPEasy-NOW

[Mariete]

Hello.

I searched here at the forum and at GitHub looking for the actual status of ESPEasy-NOW but can't find a clear answer (only some references on the change log about some fixes with the merge process).

I have some questions regarding the status and implementation for ESP-Now in ESP Easy.

Is ESPEasy-NOW usable now?
Is compatible with other ESP8266 and ESP32 devices using the standard Espressif's ESP-Now implementation (not using ESP Easy)?
Is posible to use ESPEasy-NOW at the same time as wifi (to choose to use one, the other or both)?
Is possible to turn it off (and on) for battery powered devices (I think with the actual wifi implementation is not possible to do it, something like modem sleep)?

Yes, I know there are many questions but I already have an CO2 monitor based on ESP Easy with some hundred users that already build it (link at my signature, sorry automatic translation to English, only) and I'm very close to launch a ultra low CO2 monitor using ESP-Now (no ESP Easy based) and would like to know because this can change my plans (it's here if you want to see it (with half way manual English translation): https://emariete.com/diseno-medidor-co2 ... o-consumo/, a DIY Ultra Low Power Consumption CO2 Monitor) .



Thank you very much.
Mario

[TD-er]

Nope not yet, but I guess it would make sense to split my (huge) project into something that's already mergeable as you "only" need the p2p layer.
I will try to have a look at it and hopefully this weekend I can give you an estimate on whether it is doable to split it.

I've been thinking about splitting it a few times before as I also made quite a lot of other practical changes which are also useful without ESPEasy-NOW.
Also keeping it in sync with the changes in the 'mega' branch does require quite a lot of time.

[jangotango]

is it still under development ?
it would be awesome to have multiple esp devices talking to a central esp which acts as a gateway to wifi.
I read that with esp-now power consumption reduces drastically and with slight tinkering esp can last way longer on battery power.

[TD-er]

Yes it is still under development.
It is indeed possible to send via ESPEasy-now faster than via WiFi.

[abhelou]

Yes it is still under development.
It is indeed possible to send via ESPEasy-now faster than via WiFi.

any progress in ESPEasy-now controller?

[TD-er]

Yep right now it is 'broken' with the update to ESP-IDF5.1, but I am working on fixing it (have it working here on my desk)
So dust is settling since the enormous amount of work that had to be done to move to Arduino 3.0/ESP-IDF5.1 I did pick up this again and hope to be able to merge this in the next couple of months.

N.B. this move to ESP-IDF5.1/Arduino 3.0 is still taking up quite a lot of time and energy, which does delay quite a bit of other stuff as you may have noticed since the last official build was already 3 months ago...

[abhelou]

Yep right now it is 'broken' with the update to ESP-IDF5.1, but I am working on fixing it (have it working here on my desk)
So dust is settling since the enormous amount of work that had to be done to move to Arduino 3.0/ESP-IDF5.1 I did pick up this again and hope to be able to merge this in the next couple of months.

N.B. this move to ESP-IDF5.1/Arduino 3.0 is still taking up quite a lot of time and energy, which does delay quite a bit of other stuff as you may have noticed since the last official build was already 3 months ago...

but is it usable for basic usage like reading temperature sensors and using on/off and setting pwm ?

[TD-er]

Nope, right now it only supports some kind of mesh network and forwarding MQTT messages to one node which is connected to a MQTT broker.
Sending p2p commands is not yet supported as messages need to traverse back into the mesh to reach another node.