How to connect: ESP8266 WiFiShield for Arduino Uno

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Re: How to connect: ESP8266 WiFiShield for Arduino Uno

By rotorrian
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:14 am #41276 Hi Everyone :D,

I just bought one of these puppies and I have got it it to output via serial connected to a Leonardo.

Sketch

Code: Select allint Counter =0;
void setup()
{

Serial.begin(9600);

}
void loop()
{
delay(5000);
//write out to web server

Counter=Counter+1;

//output the serial data

Serial.println("<html><head></head><body><h1>test</h1><p>");
Serial.println(Counter);
Serial.println("some text and some in <b>bold</b></p></body></html>");


Dip Switches 1=UP, 2=UP, 3=DN, 4=DN

Now connecting to the WIFI adapter is no problem as my iPhone can pick it up. But I can't access the GUI on 192.168.4.1

I did receive this from the seller on eBay

https://fineshang.gitbooks.io/esp8266-b ... index.html

and the TCP UDP Debugger tool (This doesn't work on my computer to change the mode)

http://bbs.doit.am/forum.php?mod=viewth ... ra=#pid206

Hopefully this gets us all a little further down the track
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Re: How to connect: ESP8266 WiFiShield for Arduino Uno

By Gnetis
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:11 pm #41311 Hi! Finally back here, more enlightened! :D I have finally done some stuff with the 8266 shield. I just wanted to share it with you all. Since I know I wanted all this before I started. I write all this a little bit as a "for dummies" just to make sure every step is included. So to be more precise, I use a Arduino uno with a (se below).

1: (identifying)
The shield is a "ESP8266 ESP-12E UART WIFI Wireless Shield for Arduino UNO R3" (from Ebay). Since there seems to be none documentation about this board, hopfully this will help you. I think there was some pictures before on this thread. On my board it states:

"Arduino ESP8266 Wifi shield. Version 0.9 by WangTongze." (and 1.0.. I've got two)

Here is a good link to identify which ESP8266 module you got if you want to know exacly what you got (if it is a different wifi board) :
wiki/doku.php?id=esp8266-module-family

There a 4 DIP switches on this board are numbered from 1-4. To be honest I really don't know what 1 and 2 is. But my guess is that you can use TTL levels on TX & RX opposed to 3.3 which the 8266 module uses directly. These two are always set to DOWN for me. Second though, if so, I might set them to UP when using Arduino. I usually play around with the board with a USB to 232 converter when testing. The other two, 3-4, are connected to GPIO 0 and something else xD. I really doesn't matter really. All I know, that I set these to UP to start a firmware update. Here is a good link that might be somewhat equal to what the shield has implemented.

http://blog.falafel.com/how-to-wire-the ... ogramming/

2: (using Arduino with the shield)
So everywhere, including this thread states that Arduino UNO doesn't handle the software emulated serial very good at high speeds. That is true :D So I got it to work perfectly with a baud rate 9600. What I did was to find a firmware that has default baud rate 9600 from AI thinker. I never really got the baud change to work. AT+CIOBAUD=9600 never got stuck after a reset (rst button och a AT+RST). And the other AT+IPR=9600 broke the firmware. If someone got this to work, please write here in this thread!!

Here is a link: http://wiki.aprbrother.com/wiki/Firmware_For_ESP8266

The only wiring I did to make it work, is to connect the tx and rx to Arduino's pins. (rx->tx and tx->rx). According to this example: http://allaboutee.com/2014/12/27/esp826 ... d-circuit/
connect to pins 2 and 3. The tx and rx from the 8266 shield are located on the left down side. There are other pins you can use also.

3: (flashing a firwmware)
To set the board on flash mode, put the DIP switches to 3-4 to UP, press the 'ESP-RST' button. When flashing is done, set these to DOWN and press the 'ESP-RST'.
Maybe there is a way to flash a firmware with the Arduino, but I finally bought a "FT232RL 3.3V 5.5V FTDI USB to TTL Serial Adapter Module for Arduino Mini Port T". There is a picture here: http://blog.falafel.com/how-to-wire-the ... ogramming/. I use this flash software:

https://github.com/Stadslab/ESP8266_exa ... te%20Ready

Because you can't really do any setting with it and it has worked 100% of all time for me and my use.

So to connect the FT232RL to the 8266 board:

(pins down) from left to right you have: dtr, rx, tx, vcc,cts and gnd and on the wifi shield from left to right: txd, rxd, 5v, gnd, 3v3. rx->txd, tx->rxd, gnd->gnd, vcc-> 3v3. Remeber that the FT232RL board has a jumper to change the voltage. You should use 3.3v. But for me I had some problems flashing, so I actually the the voltage to 5v and then connect the vcc to 5v connector on the wifi board. Never had any problems after that.

Wow... I'm tired.. going to sleep soon, so sorry if there is bad english going on here and inconsistency in the documatation. I tried to include all... Finally: there are some other types firmwares to flash. But that is a whole other story! AI thinker seems to be the one included at start, which is the one I'm using. Well well, that's it. Have a good one :)
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