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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Annex WiFi (ESP8266) to uMite MX170
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| MikeO Senior Member  Joined: 11/09/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 275 |
Some time ago I was using ESP8266 wifi modules with Mites (170 and 470), the ESP8266 code was written in ESPbasic, these were quite successful but ESPbasic was not without its challenges. I have now revisited this combination and this time I have been using Annex Wifi for ESP8266, Annex is very nice to use and has a lot more functionality. One of main features for the MX170 apart from the obvious wifi, is its brings an dead easy file system capability, just create read and write files on the ESP8266 from the uMite. Apart from that there is HTTP messaging , UDP messaging, emails etc all from the Mite. If it may be of use to anyone all the current code and a write up is on my web site. Overview and details here Mike Codenquilts |
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| astro1 Regular Member  Joined: 26/06/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 53 |
Is serverip the UDP receiver IP? What path should the ini file be located for UDP Commander, as it can't can't find the path. Frank |
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| MikeO Senior Member Joined: 11/09/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 275 |
Frank, the Commander only works with the ESPbasic version of ESP-MCU software. The Annex toolkit has a very functional UDP Send Receive. The serverip variable is intended as the ip address of a network server ie Raspberry Pi, NAS . Mike Codenquilts |
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| astro1 Regular Member Joined: 26/06/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 53 |
Yep, I've set everything up, trying to use commander, it can't find its ini file. I can put it into the location it is looking for, need to know where that is. What is on the pi or nas that espbasic talks to? Thought serverip talked to commander? Frank |
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| MikeO Senior Member Joined: 11/09/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 275 |
Frank, It looks like that install file has a problem. Please uninstall the previous one and use the install file in the zip file at this link. After the installation though you will need to copy the ini file and replace the one installed. The location of the ini file is in the C:\Users\PC USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\uMite Udp Car Timer .file The purpose of the Commander software was to interface with the ESPBasic versions of the ESP/uMite I wrote, not this latest Annex based firmware, all though it will receive any UDP broadcast transmissions from these devices. The ESP devices on my home network are used to transmit data from several sources ie, Home weather station (wind, temps, hum etc) Greenhouse monitoring, Solar PV and Electricity usage. On the collection end I use a Raspberry Pi running Node Red software and EMONCMS. The ESPs send data in UDP and HTTP messages . Mike Edited 2019-08-13 18:49 by MikeO Codenquilts |
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