ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:57 am #35876 I got an Arduino Uno and a ESP-13 wifi module. I'm wanting to create a webserver that when I connect to it, it has buttons that when pressed it'll change LED lights in my wife's Kitchen. I'm doing this for Christmas for her. I wrote a simple wifi sketch to test the network, it hangs up on connecting to the network. It seems to be stuck in AP mode. I can't get it to switch to STA mode and connect to my home network. I've used the Arduino ESP8266 ide build, downloaded the board in the board manager, I've tried logging on to the board itself and went to 192.168.4.1 and changed setting there with no avail. My question is, How do I get the the ESP8266 Esp-13 board to communicate with my arduino uno, much like a wifi shield or is there a different process to get this working. The board looks like this and connects with the arduino like an arduino shield

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I figured out my issue It's not meant for acting like a wifi, my mis-understanding. Now if anyone knows, I can connect it to my network, but I can't seem to figure out how to establish a tcp connection with it on my own network.

I just dive in. If it's a task to big, I might drown, but I'd rather challenge myself and sink then do a simple task and doggy paddle.

- Tue Jan 05, 2016 2:26 am #37947 Once you have it powered up, if you did not configured it already, you can scan from your laptop the wifi networks, and see its SSID as DoitSer.... connect to that one, if asks for password its 123456.
When connected go in your browser to 192.168.1.4 and you will see its configuration web page.

- Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:56 pm #38102 Hi!

Got my hands on this board and wasnt able to configure anything but one way communication with TCP socket (single one) This is a kind of frustration. Everything else seems to be configured only manually and there is no observable easy way to switch between server/client modes or flash the ESP8266. The official module docs on this topic are quite poor unfortunately. Maybe someone had experience in working with this board and can suggest workarounds? I am trying to implement the HTTP communication of Arduino with remote server being able not just to send some data but also to recieve some data in response.

- Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:14 pm #44989 I found this thread via google. I bought the same board and had the same problem.

The answer (for me) is to use MS Internet Explorer to set the configuration page. I was using Firefox initially, on two different laptops. I switched to IE and it worked.

I still can't get their software (TCPUDPDbg.exe) to run though. I've tried it on 32bit WinXP and 64bit Win7. It loads, but then dies with the error message "TCPUDPDbg Microsoft has stopped working" and the option to check online for a solution, which it can't find. I've tried a variety of compatibility modes too.

I set mine to log itself onto my network and then act as a server at port 9000. Both microswitches must be set to "on" for communication via the Arduino serial interface.