I decided to convert it to use UDP and dumped all the webserver and web client stuff. I cannot get directly copied sample code to run. There are no errors, but the receiver never seems to detect any packets. I am trying to do some testing now with one module connected to my home wifi as a client. That seems to work fine and I can ping it from my PC.
Now I noticed that the old access point I had defined comes online whenever I power up the module, even though there is nothing about that in the new code. It's like there is still some old code on the module that is running in addition to what I am trying to do. I have tried holding the flash button down while writing the new code, but that didn't do anything different. Any ideas? The code I am currently running is some test code I downloaded and is listed below.
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiUdp.h>
const char* ssid = "midway";
const char* password = "scottperie4780";
WiFiUDP Udp;
unsigned int localUdpPort = 4210; // local port to listen on
char incomingPacket[255]; // buffer for incoming packets
char replyPacket[] = "Hi there! Got the message "; // a reply string to send back
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Connecting");
Serial.printf("Connecting to %s ", ssid);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED)
{
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
}
Serial.println(" connected");
Udp.begin(localUdpPort);
Serial.printf("Now listening at IP %s, UDP port %d\n", WiFi.localIP().toString().c_str(), localUdpPort);
}
void loop()
{
int packetSize = Udp.parsePacket();
if (packetSize)
{
// receive incoming UDP packets
Serial.printf("Received %d bytes from %s, port %d\n", packetSize, Udp.remoteIP().toString().c_str(), Udp.remotePort());
int len = Udp.read(incomingPacket, 255);
if (len > 0)
{
incomingPacket[len] = 0;
}
Serial.printf("UDP packet contents: %s\n", incomingPacket);
// send back a reply, to the IP address and port we got the packet from
Udp.beginPacket(Udp.remoteIP(), Udp.remotePort());
Udp.write(replyPacket);
Udp.endPacket();
}
}