ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:07 pm #38269 The REST and MQTT support is currently being refactored. With 2.1.7 you can use espduino, sample sketch at https://github.com/tve/espduino/blob/ma ... t/mqtt.ino
The new library will be https://github.com/jeelabs/el-client but it's a week-end away from being usable.

- Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:44 pm #39885 > The REST and MQTT support is currently being refactored.

I'd like to use an ESP8266 as transparent serial bridge - but at the same time, it would be nice to have access to the unused flash memory of the ESP (to store logging data from an AVR MCU in a wroom's 4MB flash) and to get the time from the ESP/internet. Can this be done with esp-link? The git site mentions REST and SLIP. I assume SLIP is a protocol to embed non-serial-data into a serial data stream. If so, could this SLIP part be used between MCU and ESP, as basis for MCU functions to send commands to / retrieve data from the ESP side?

- Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:16 pm #39914 You could definitely implement what you describe, but it's not provided out-of-the-box.

- Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:20 am #40135 I just uploaded a new beta release v2.2.beta1 https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link/rel ... v2.2.beta1 with support for the new SLIP protocol and REST as well as MQTT libraries found in https://github.com/jeelabs/el-client/tree/v2.2.beta1
I'm sure there are plenty of bugs left in the REST & MQTT stuff, but there's also a number of new features in the rest of esp-link, such as Wifi AP configuration!