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- Wed May 27, 2015 5:11 pm #18671 Lets get the wire out of the arduino loading process.... by using ESP

example: Using the ESP01 as the simplest way, and finding a way to upload code from the IDE to the arduino wirelessly .

Last edited by rickalex on Wed May 27, 2015 5:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

- Wed May 27, 2015 5:17 pm #18672 My idea is as follows:
- setup the ESP8266 as an access point(AP).
- Create a server on the PC (using python or whatever) that responds to any request by sending the hex file contents to be programmed as a string
- Put the PC server on the ESP8266 AP LAN.
- the ESP8266 acts as a client and sends a request to the PC server
- The PC server replies by sending the hex file contents to the ESP8266 as a string
- Once the ESP8266 has the hex file contents it then uses the stk500 protocol to program the Arduino attached to the ESP8266 via the serial port (tricky part).

- Wed May 27, 2015 7:05 pm #18678 This seems to do pretty much exactly what you want:
https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link/tree/master