ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:42 am #37619 I have recently flashed my ESP-01 with NodeMCU.What features does this provide when compared to the firmware that comes with the ESP8266?
What would be a good place to get started using lua?
Also just like AT commands is there any feature in this firmware that allows to post HTTP requests etc?

- Fri Jan 01, 2016 6:42 pm #37653 To save you a google search ...

With the nodemcu firmware you get a lua interpreter (like in python or matlab or any any unix shell) so you can type commands into it and it will execute them. Which commands? Basic lua commands (arithmetic, etc.) and ESP8266 specific commands:

https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firm ... mcu_api_en

Look at the files in the lua_examples directory in the nodemcu git repository:

https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware