A Wireless Wood Stove Monitor on Hackaday

[Heckler]

Michel,
your projects are awesome!

I am working on interfacing an esp8266 to a PIC to control a nixie clock.
I have it working now and am just fine tuning and adding features.
as an example of the brilliant simplicity of using the esp8266basic...

here is the code I have running on the esp module to get ntp time and provide it to the PIC...

memclear
cls
timesetup(-7,0)
baudrate 9600
serialtimeout 2000
delay 1000
button "Exit " [Exit]
[Main]
timer 100 [PicSer]
wait
'
[PicSer]
serialflush
input picIN
picIN = mid(picIN,1,5)
if picIN == "Time?" then gosub [gettime]
wait
'
[gettime]
bla = time()
hh = mid(bla,12,2) 'hour
mm = mid(bla,15,2) 'min
ss = mid(bla,18,2) 'sec
'
picOUT = hh & mm
picOUT = picOUT & ss
serialprint picOUT
'
return
'
[Exit] 
end

that is it!

Now it is no where near as complete and capable as our beloved PICbasicpro but it really dosen't need to be. That is what the PIC is good for.
You can run the complex code with complete reliably and have the esp module do the wifi stuff.

And the real beauty and power of the espBASIC is that there is no complex tool chain to get it up and running. The development environment IDE is all hosted within the module itself. Once you flash the espbasic OS to the module then that is it! All the rest of code development happens in the self-hosted web page from the module.