ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:42 pm #64934

And what do you want to do? What is the goal? And do you have electronic experience? Do you know how you plan to power the devices?

Go there and read, do some of the examples. https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/tree ... sp8266wifi

The goal is basically to have two lamps (Most likely It'll be LED) that are linked to eachother over the internet so that when I turn on lamp A in Texas, Lamp B in Victoria will also turn on, and if lamp B in Victoria gets turned off lamp A in Texas also turns off and vice versa. (With the idea being "i'm thinking about you" etc)
I do have some electronics experience, I can solder etc. I haven't given power much thought, but not battery powered for sure.. the arduino can be powered via micro usb right? maybe something as simple as a wall usb charger?

- Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:17 pm #64959 As rudy wrote, try some examples. Have a look at the code and see if you can understand it. If you have no programming experience at all, then you'll need to look up some C/C++ tutorials. Try writing some programs directly on a PC rather than having the complication of using ESP until you've got the hang of the language. If you're on Linux, you'll already have a programming environment for free. On Windows, you'll have to buy something. I don't know about Mac; I guess there's free stuff there but probably not installed by default.

- Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:35 am #79017 Hi!
Have you finished your sketch? Is it working? I would like to try it too, so I was wondering if you could post your sketch here?

Thanks!