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Hi ESP'ers,

I'm in the situation where I'm doing development with the ESP8266, and currently need the UART's for other things -which means I can't send debug output to Serial/Serial1 any more.

So I'll move over to the SYSLOG protocol, over UDP, to send debug messages.

Before I go through the effort I thought I'd check to see if anyone else has done this with the ESP yet, and if so if you're willing to share the code? I'd love to just be able to globally replace my "Serial.print()" calls with "syslog()" if its possible . . anyone know if it is out there already, or if not, any other tips for me before I write my own method?

syslog/udp is quite simple. You're supposed to impose some formatting, but it's not required. If you really want to, you can just send any string on udp port 514 and it will work. It's better to include some host name, process name and timestamp of course.

With Arduino, sample.

https://gist.github.com/chaeplin/8f4b06aa2bd454232892

Very nice - thanks for sharing the sample .. works well. Just got to add varargs and we have a logger replacement ..