ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:49 am #1356 Hi all,

For those of you who are active in the IRC channel #esp8266 (on Freenode), since yesterday we have a bot. It's not that useful yet, the most interesting thing it can do is tell you how long it's been since some user is active (esp8266bot: seen Sprite_tm).

Anyway, that's still pretty good if you consider that the bot is completely in the style of the channel:


That's a 5V USB power plug which feeds into a LM1117-3.3 which powers the ESP8266. The only extra component is an 100uF cap to suppress transient spikes.

I'll publish sources as soon as I cleaned them up a bit.

- Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:58 am #1357 ohh this is great, an irc bot on esp8266. Did you implemented botnet or is it "simple" single bot with used db only?

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter ...
I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.

- Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:29 am #1359

ohh this is great, an irc bot on esp8266. Did you implemented botnet or is it "simple" single bot with used db only?

Database? I think you overestimate what I can do in an idle evening The code is built from scratch and the implementation is as simple as you'd expect: eg for the seen functionality I just have an array in RAM with the 32 people who last talked and the time since they did.

- Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:45 am #1360 oh well, i was only curious what inside the code

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter ...
I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.