esp8266/Arduino

Arduino IDE for ESP8266

Me No Dev

@me-no-dev

damn gitter rewriting the numbers...

the next reason would be that you can not join the igmp group (doubt it)

and the last is that the server could not be started (havng started other servers before MDNS?)

Ivan Grokhotkov

@igrr

mdns.update();

This isn't necessary any more

Also if you have

MDNSResponder mdns;

This needs to be removed.

@h4rm0n1c I love the language of this Code of Merit. I was planning to add CONTRIBUTING.md, this will definitely be a good addition.

Harrison Mclean

@h4rm0n1c

@igrr no probs, thanks for the kind words, hopefully some good can come from these unfortunate situations other projects are going through.

seclorum

@seclorum

hey guys .. what happened to the esp8266 branch that was usable to build the Arduino ESP8266 tools from sources?

I'm using : https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino.git

branch: esp8266

but it seems its not available at origin any more .. ?

Markus

@Links2004

there where a rebuild of the git

seclorum

@seclorum

a rebuild of the git?

Markus

@Links2004

esp8266/Arduino#904

we removed all the code from the Arduino IDE itself

seclorum

@seclorum

so i want to just build the toolchain as i don't use the IDE - thus i don't use the boards manager

is there still a way to do that?

Markus

@Links2004

yes https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino#using-git-version- thanks to the changes its really easy now

seclorum

@seclorum

i don't want to use the arduino IDE at all .. do i still need it for the git version?

i.e. don't want to install a binary of the ide

Markus

@Links2004

die IDE is not needed you can use your one build scripts

the steps are the same

git clone https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino.git esp8266
cd esp8266/tools
python get.py

then you have all you need to build a binary for the ESP

seclorum

@seclorum

great thanks .. trying it now

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

I have this stuff installed via the boards manager in the arduino IDE. I'm guessing the reason the ArduinoOTA.h isn't found is because that's an older version of the tools, right? I see you just explained how to install it from git (which would be the latest version). Is there a guide somewhere for how to do the OTA stuff (including the client side)?

seclorum

@seclorum

ermm, this is still downloading bins to me .. not building the toolchain from scratch, right?

Ivan Grokhotkov

@igrr

@seclorum you're right, it doesn't build toolchain "from scratch"

which OS are you using?

linux and OS X toolchains are build using crosstool-ng

windows toolchain is built using this script and MinGW

Markus

@Links2004

@jeffeb3 the example is here: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/ArduinoOTA/examples/BasicOTA/BasicOTA.ino
the upload process the same the allways you only need the select the right OTA target by the Ports menu

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

Oh wait, the client is the arduino IDE for ota updates? Neat.

Markus

@Links2004

yes

or you can use a web server, take a look here:
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/268#issuecomment-154190046

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

Hah, that's cool too.

I am constantly surprised how much is changing with this ESP chip.

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

The web server example doesn't explain the client. Looks like someone could use that for making a web based IDE/updater.

Markus

@Links2004

yes, possible, the "client" (http Server) only needs to send a bin file or http header 304 (no update).
in the simples case there is no logic or script on there server running.
but the server can send for example different files based on the MAC address.
I currently running a simple php script thats delivers based on a json file the bins based on the MAC (including a version check).

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

If there was money in it, someone could make a web based IDE (similar to the particle IDE) and automatically fill in the web updater stuff, and then point each one to a separate webpage. I guess you'd be dealing with a lot of devices checking in all the time for updates.

Anyway, it's very cool.

Yeah, I think I'm going to figure this all out. I would like to stop having to climb on a ladder to change the firmware on my garage door detector. Seems easy enough.

Thanks.

Markus

@Links2004

yes, this one of the reasons why i wrote the http updater ;)

Jeff Eberl

@jeffeb3

Well thank you. And get it documented! The people must know!

seclorum

@seclorum

@igrr thanks, is the config for crostool-ng available somewhere in the repo, i may have overlooked it .. for compliance/testing reasons, where possible I prefer to build toolchains from source...

tzapu

@tzapu

hi guys, does OTA work with ide 1.6.6 now ? or still limited to 1.6.5 ?

Ivan Grokhotkov

@igrr

@seclorum "config" is actually within crosstool-ng itself, it is called xtensa-lx106-elf

So on Linux you just follow crosstool-ng manual and do something like

./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=`pwd` && make && make install
./ct-ng xtensa-lx106-elf
./ct-ng build

After that the toolchain will be inside builds/xtensa-lx106-elf directory

On OS X things get a bit more tricky: you need to run crosstool-ng on a case-sensitive volume, plus you need some GNU tools from macports or homebrew

Ivan Grokhotkov

@igrr

@seclorum btw, @kireevco has been working on build scripts for the toolchain recently: https://github.com/kireevco/packages/tree/master/xtensa-lx106-elf
perhaps that's what you need

Dmitry Kireev

@kireevco

@seclorum @igrr it works on all platforms, now I’m making my jenkins work

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