Basics,Tutorials & Howto's

Introduction

Over time a lot of tutorials, howto's and other help texts for ESPEasy have been written.
As usual with growing text collections they were spread over the wiki, making them difficult to find.

This page was created to collect all these helps into one place for more convenient searching.

What's Here?

You will find several chapters here:

• Basics: The basics were written to give some general understanding of how things like I²C or an ADC work.
• Tutorials & Howto's: Guidance for specific tasks or solving specific problems.
• Listings: Listings of commands and similar.

For easy use we added a short abstract with all links.

KIS - Keep It Simple!

None of the articles you will find makes the claim to be complete or for scientific exactness.
An example: It's easy to write a book about analog to digital converters, including a lot of
theory, mathematics and diagrams. Would this really help you? Most likely it will not, at least
not for ESPEasy and home automation in an acceptable time span.

The descriptions are kept as simple as possible. They are written to give enough
knowledge to carry out your tasks and solve your problems.

Basics

Explanations of basic functions and methods used with ESPEasy.

Analog to Digital Conversion

Basics: Analog to Digital Converters
How does conversion work? How can the values used?

Calibration and Accuracy

Basics: Calibration and Accuracy
Which accuracy can be expected from your sensors? How to calibrate sensors.

ESP Types and Boards

Basics: ESP8266 Types and Boards
Which boards exist, can the be used with ESPEasy?

Relays

Relays
How does a mechanical relay work? What is this diode good for?

Basics: Relays
Description of mechanical and electronic (SSR) relays. Connection to the ESP and problem solving.