ESP8266 Community Forum

Hi all,

I have an Arduino Mega 2560 and I'm trying to use an ESP8266 as a wifi shield (i.e., by using `WiFi.h`). Everything I've found online so far only shows how to use the board by bypassing the Arduino and connecting directly to the ESP8266, or requires that I manually send network requests. Is there any way to use the `WiFi.h` library when I connect the ESP8266 to my Serial1 ports?

you can't use the Arduino WiFi library. it is for a different hardware.
you could use WiFiEsp library or my WiFiEspAT library (it has constraints)