The use of the ESP8266 in the world of IoT

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By BobTPH
#92802 I have just gotten started using ESP8266, using the ESP-01 module with a PIC24 micro as the host.

I have successfully made a trivial HTTP server that responds with "Hello", so that much is working fine.

But I would like to get multicast UDP messages since my application has 8 nodes that must be coordinated and synchronized, hopefully by a controller sending a single UDP message that all receive.

Here is the sequence of commands that I have tried (after successfully connecting to access point). The indented line is the response from ESP.

AT+CIPMUX=0
AT+CIPMODE?
AT+CIPMODE=1
AT+CIPSTART="UDP","239.1.1.1",1900

I am getting the expected responses.

Now I expect to get +IDD messages. I enter a loop and I receive nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Bob