ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:16 am #89874 Hi together,

so id like to play around with some light stuff in my house and since id like to avoid connecting my esp8266 to my home wifi Id want to use some rf. Sadly you cant emit every rf from your smartphone so i wondered if i could do the following:
Have my smartphone as the transmitter: use the bluetooth rf without any protocol or connection. It should just send my informations (like udp): here an id followed by the command/msg.
Have the esp8266 recieve the data, again: without any given protocol, just those free messages.


Greets Ludwig

- Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:48 am #89906

Have my smartphone as the transmitter: use the bluetooth rf without any protocol or connection.

The ESP8266 does not communicate using Bluetooth. You have to use WiFi with the ESP8266. I doubt you can make the hardware in the phone use WiFi for the connection to the ESP8266 with the interface to the hardware on the phone look like Bluetooth.

- Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:35 am #89910 What you need is a ESP32 which has wifi + bluetooth.
For ideas have a look at this instructable:-
https://www.instructables.com/ESP32-BLE-Android-App-Arduino-IDE-AWESOME/