Example sketches for the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By NattyFido
#32071 I have been building websites for a number of years now (I'm no web guru though!) and messing around with electronics since I was a kid, I always wanted a way to combine the two hobbies. Now I can, thanks to the ESP8266.
Now, it's never going to compete with a PC running Apache, PHP and MySQL, but in the few short days since my ESP arrived, I've managed to build, and program, a simple webserver!

This example allows you to turn two LEDs on and off from any browser using two links on the page. The links change to show the current state of the LEDs and because the ESP has so much memory available (even after all the WiFi stuff!), I decided to add a little CSS too.

Code: Select all/*  Simple Web Server for ESP8266-12E
 *  NattyFido 2015
 *  www.nattyfido.co.uk  (shameless plug!)
 */

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>

const char* ssid = "YOUR-SSID";                //  SSID of LAN/WLAN
const char* password = "YOUR-PASSWORD";        //  password
const int port = 80;                           //  port to serve pages through

const int led0 = 13;
const int led1 = 12;
const int led2 = 14;

int v1 = 0;
int v2 = 0;

WiFiServer server(port);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);                        //  start serial for debug
  delay(10);
  pinMode(led0, OUTPUT);                       //  all outputs for LEDs
  pinMode(led1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(led2, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(led0, 0);                       //  all LEDs off to start
  digitalWrite(led1, 0);
  digitalWrite(led2, 0);
  Serial.println();
  Serial.println();
  Serial.print("Connecting to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);                    //  connect to WiFi network
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {        //  wait until connected
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }
  Serial.println("");
  Serial.println("WiFi connected");
  server.begin();                                // Start the server
  Serial.println("Server started");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());                // Print the servers IP address
}

void loop() {
  WiFiClient client = server.available();        // Check if a client has connected
  if (!client) {
    return;
  }
  Serial.println("New client");                  // Wait until the client sends some data
  while (!client.available()) {
    delay(1);
  }
  String req = client.readStringUntil('\r');     // Read the first line of the request
  Serial.println(req);
  client.flush();
  if (req.indexOf("/led1/0") != -1)              //  if req = /led1/0
    v1 = 0;                                      //  set flag to turn LED1 off
  else if (req.indexOf("/led1/1") != -1)         //  if req = /led1/1
    v1 = 1;                                      //  set flag to turn LED1 on
  else if (req.indexOf("/led2/0") != -1)         //  if req = /led2/0
    v2 = 0;                                      //  set flag to turn LED2 off
  else if (req.indexOf("/led2/1") != -1)         //  if req = /led2/1
    v2 = 1;                                      //  set flag to turn LED2 on
  else {
    Serial.println("Invalid request");           //  URL not recognised
    String r = HTMLHeader();                     //  display home page
    r += HTMLPage();
    r += HTMLFooter();
    client.print(r);                              //  send page to clients browser
    client.stop();                                //  disconnect client
    return;
  }
  digitalWrite(led1, v1);                         //  set LED1 according to v1
  digitalWrite(led2, v2);                         //  set LED2 according to v2
  client.flush();
  String s = HTMLHeader();                        //  display page
  s += HTMLPage();
  s += HTMLFooter();
  digitalWrite(led0, 1);                          //  page is being sent
  client.print(s);                                //  send the response to the client
  client.stop();                                  //  disconnect client
  digitalWrite(led0, 0);                          //  finished sending page
  delay(1);
  Serial.println("Client disonnected");
  Serial.println("");
}

String HTMLHeader() {                             //  standard HTML header
  String h = "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n";
  h += "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
  h += "<!DOCTYPE HTML>\n";
  h += "<html>\n";
  h += "<body>\n";
  return h;
}
String HTMLFooter() {                            //  standard HTML footer
  String f = "<table width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"black\" cellpadding=\"12\" border=\"0\">\n";
  f += "<tr><td><p style = \"color: white; background: black;font-size: 0.8em;";
  f += "font-weight: bold; text-align: center; margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">\n";
  f += "<a href = \"http://www.nattyfido.co.uk\">Dean Fowler</a> &copy; 2015</p></td></tr>";
  f += "</table>";
  f += "</body>\n";
  f += "</html>\n";
  return f;
}

String HTMLPage() {                        //   main HTML for page, edit to suit your application
  String p = "<h1>Simple Webserver</h1>\n";
  p += "<p>Running on a <b>ESP8266-12E</b></p>\n";
  p += "<p>Code written in <b>Arduino IDE</b> by <i>NattyFido</i></p>\n";
  //  display links depending on current state of LEDs 1 & 2
  p += (v1) ? "<p><a href = \"/led1/0\">Turn LED 1 off</a></p>\n" : "<p><a href = \"/led1/1\">Turn LED 1 on</a></p>\n";
  p += (v2) ? "<p><a href = \"/led2/0\">Turn LED 2 off</a></p>\n" : "<p><a href = \"/led2/1\">Turn LED 2 on</a></p>\n";
  return p;
}


Feel free to use and abuse as you see fit, all comments and suggestions welcome.

Natty
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By timathis
#32264 Nice Program!
I got it running right off the start.

I am going to study it and hope to learn how it all fits together.

Nice neighbors you got there!

timathis
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By Neb_34
#33062 Hy Natty,

Thanks very much for sharing your code. I needed just something like that to start to write my own codes! Yours is simple enough (although I have to study it) and very clear.

Regards,

Javier.
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By NattyFido
#33202 Thanks, all I did was modify one of the example programs. Once I figured out how the HTML requests were decoded, it was a simple matter of inserting my own HTML to be sent back to the client.