ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:44 pm #57716 Before I dive into this 8266 and blow my brain up I'm hoping someone can tell me if what I want to do is even possible.

My project is a popup target that is controlled by an android device and, ultimately, 4 or 5 of them.

I want to be able to connect 4 or 5 devices to my cell phone and very simply send them on/off signals. I don't want to use blue tooth because it's my understanding that wifi has a better range. I started out with the idea that wifi direct (or p2p) would be doable but from what I've read, the esp8266 isn't really direct/p2p capable. But I've also read that wifi direct/p2p is legacy compatible so maybe the 8266 doesn't have to be.

The 8266 is attractive to me in that it seems to be widely in use and there is actually a community of people out there that play with and do cool things with it. I did something similar with arduino and an NRFxx transceiver and liked working with the arduino I've spent some time with a TI cc3200 and found it poorly documented so ultimately stupid difficult.

So what do you think? Would the 8266 be worth looking at or am I barking up an empty tree?

Thanks guys.

- Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:38 am #57723 what is a pop up target?

yes. you can send msg from android to multiple esp8266

- Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:47 am #57733 Sounds like fun.

And yes you can do this with the ESP8266

- Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:03 pm #59616 Thanks guys. I appreciate your answers.

what is a pop up target?

yes. you can send msg from android to multiple esp8266

A popup target sits out on a shooting range and periodically pops up giving the guy with the gun a second or two to shoot then drops back down. Ideally is to have 4 to 6 of them popping up at indeterminate intervals and for random times so the shooter has no idea what will be his targets and when.

Thanks again.