A unique feature of Internet-enabled "things" is that they often have an Internet connection and little else. First-configuration of these devices therefore presents a challenge, which most solve by creating their own wireless access point, to allow their owner to supply credentials for the local wireless network.
Web-Configured ESP is an attempt to abstract away the boilerplate required for this task, and other related ones. It's a "starter" sketch providing the following basic features:
Web-Configured ESP is an attempt to abstract away the boilerplate required for this task, and other related ones. It's a "starter" sketch providing the following basic features:
- Creation of a temporary Access Point ("MyESP") allowing the configuration at the conventional url, http://192.168.4.1
- A basic web-server running at this address, serving config.json and storing updates to it
- An HTTP update server, allowing upload of new sketches "over the air"
- An mDNS responder allowing access at http://myesp.local
Together, these features allow bootstrapping of sketches without requiring the devices to be tethered to a development machine, and user-provisioning of the finished article in the field.
