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Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:33 am**

Hi all
good day
I have recently started using Esp8266 in Arduino IDE. today I tested the the WiFiTelnetToSerial example and found it useful .

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/* 
  WiFiTelnetToSerial - Example Transparent UART to Telnet Server for esp8266

  Copyright (c) 2015 Hristo Gochkov. All rights reserved.
  This file is part of the ESP8266WiFi library for Arduino environment.
 
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
*/
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>

//how many clients should be able to telnet to this ESP8266
#define MAX_SRV_CLIENTS 1
const char* ssid = "**********";
const char* password = "**********";

WiFiServer server(23);
WiFiClient serverClients[MAX_SRV_CLIENTS];

void setup() {
  Serial1.begin(115200);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  Serial1.print("\nConnecting to "); Serial1.println(ssid);
  uint8_t i = 0;
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED && i++ < 20) delay(500);
  if(i == 21){
    Serial1.print("Could not connect to"); Serial1.println(ssid);
    while(1) delay(500);
  }
  //start UART and the server
  Serial.begin(115200);
  server.begin();
  server.setNoDelay(true);
  
  Serial1.print("Ready! Use 'telnet ");
  Serial1.print(WiFi.localIP());
  Serial1.println(" 23' to connect");
}

void loop() {
  uint8_t i;
  //check if there are any new clients
  if (server.hasClient()){
    for(i = 0; i < MAX_SRV_CLIENTS; i++){
      //find free/disconnected spot
      if (!serverClients[i] || !serverClients[i].connected()){
        if(serverClients[i]) serverClients[i].stop();
        serverClients[i] = server.available();
        Serial1.print("New client: "); Serial1.print(i);
        continue;
      }
    }
    //no free/disconnected spot so reject
    WiFiClient serverClient = server.available();
    serverClient.stop();
  }
  //check clients for data
  for(i = 0; i < MAX_SRV_CLIENTS; i++){
    if (serverClients[i] && serverClients[i].connected()){
      if(serverClients[i].available()){
        //get data from the telnet client and push it to the UART
        while(serverClients[i].available()) Serial.write(serverClients[i].read());
      }
    }
  }
  //check UART for data
  if(Serial.available()){
    size_t len = Serial.available();
    uint8_t sbuf[len];
    Serial.readBytes(sbuf, len);
    //push UART data to all connected telnet clients
    for(i = 0; i < MAX_SRV_CLIENTS; i++){
      if (serverClients[i] && serverClients[i].connected()){
        serverClients[i].write(sbuf, len);
        delay(1);
      }
    }
  }
}

I decided to connect my Serial thermal printer to the module and send the test print from my PC using wifi .
I mean that I sent the data to the IP address of esp and The module sends it to my printer using uart at 115200 kbps.
It was excellent but I found a problem when I send a B/W jpeg file , I noticed that only a part of the picture is printed .
to check the issue , i connected the serial port to my PC too . and monitored the data which is sent to the serial port . The result was as expected ! only a part of the whole packet was received !
by testing several pictures over and over , and checking the recieved packets from the usart , I found out that only about 10K byte of the data is received in serial port .
can any one help me to fix this problem please ?
best regards