ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri May 18, 2018 1:58 pm #75989 Thank you for your replies.

I’m trying to stay with ESP, rather than trying to tinker with Raspberry PI.

Would a usb host shield be worth a try or might that be a non starter.

Unfortunately I don’t have the option not to use USB, as that is the output from my AIS device.

- Mon May 21, 2018 5:31 pm #76019 The USB host library supports ESP8266 but you need a driver for the AIS device. When the AIS device is plugged into a regular computer, does it appear as a serial COM port? If something else, what does it look like?

Raspberry Pi is probably the better way to go assuming the device works on Linux.

https://github.com/felis/USB_Host_Shield_2.0#boards

- Tue May 22, 2018 10:28 am #76031 Thank you for the update.

When the AIS device is plugged into a windows pc it does show as a SerialCOM Port. I will have a look and read at the link you sent, hoping I can continue with my project.

The project is to receive the AIS information and then broadcast it using the ESP8266 os that the information is available anywhere onboard that someone has a smartphone or tablet.

- Wed May 23, 2018 2:04 am #76039 The USB host library supports various USB to serial devices so hopefully the AIS device uses one of them.

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