ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:48 am #5318 yes. you will need a serial port interface like usb to serial module.
search the forum on how to do fw upgrade.

how many io depends on the module you have.
here are some: http://www.electrodragon.com/product/es ... l-ios-smd/

- Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:51 pm #5364 I'm also trying to do exactly the same thing though in a different context so to speak.

Im using the LUA (NodeMCU) firmware in this case, if I get anything done I'll try and post what I can but this is all new to me as well.

Also have a look at:

http://importhack.wordpress.com/2014/11 ... eb-client/

Best of luck.

Cdr

- Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:12 am #5781 Which usb to serial module would you recommend I get?

And which pins would I use would I use for input if I use esp-3 ?

- Sun Dec 28, 2014 6:23 am #5826

Which usb to serial module would you recommend I get?

the one you can easily get.

any GPIO pin can be used as input