Tag: esp8266

  • Lessons learnt from ESP NOW

    For those of you who aren’t aware of ESP NOW, it’s a communication protocol developed by Espressif for their ESP modules. What began as a simple “hook up my plant lights to HomeKit”, turned into a massive home grown firmware, but more about that in another post. I’ve successfully setup a bunch of ESP 8266…

  • Sending OTA updates over WiFi to your ESP8266

    This Christmas, I added a whole bunch of lights powered by 5V power sources. My goal was to switch them on at sunset, and switch them off on sunrise, by using a MOSFET for power control :) While I was doing this, I wanted to send OTA updates of my Lua files to the ESP8266…