April 2015 - Page 2 of 2 - Scargill's Tech Blog

Making ESP8266 Programming Easier

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 Peter ScargillESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-201, ESP12, ESP8266, tiny-8529 Comments

Updated 09 Apr 2015 – code fix: A little something here from my guest writer and friend Aidan who’s been working with me on the latest home control successes to follow after this blog! If you’ve successfully written and uploaded a piece of C code for the ESP8266 in any…

And now… SMING Framework

April 2, 2015 Peter ScargillArduino, ESP826610 Comments

As if the LAST announcement about an Arduino development environment wasn’t good enough (if you read my blog I acknowledged that the Arduino IDE was not as good as Eclipse) – there’s an ECLIPSE Arduino environment called Sming Open Source Framework. They’ve not YEY gotten MQTT working apparently but there…

An ESP8266 for Arduino Game Changer?

April 2, 2015April 2, 2015 Peter ScargillArduino, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP-201, ESP12, ESP826633 Comments

(updated 2/4/2015) Here we go again – just as you thought it was safe to start coding, another game-changer comes along. This time not only do we have an Arduino IDE for the ESP8266 (which isn’t a stunningly good IDE but it’s awfully familiar to many developers) but also what…

Home Control The Next Step

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 Peter ScargillC Programming, ESP-01, ESP-02, ESP-03, ESP-04, ESP-05, ESP-06, ESP-07, ESP-08, ESP-09, ESP-10, ESP-11, ESP-12, ESP12, ESP8266, Internet of Things, MQTT, Node Red, Raspberry Pi 2, WIFI4 Comments

As regular readers will know I’ve pretty much gotten to grips with the whole home control thing having after much research settled on a largely MQTT-based setup using the excellent new Raspberry Pi2 as a hub with Node-Red. Though it could just as easily have been any proper Linux or…