- Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:41 pm
#78248
What you describe can all be done with a single ESP (and a couple of auxiliary components) and a lot of elbow grease; there's no need for a Pi (of any sort).
Just get yourself an Arduino IDE, download the ESP8266 core, try out some examples and put together your own code by taking pieces of someone else's work.
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
Someone else on this forum is playing with an ESP in his green house, maybe you can exchange ideas with him (sorry can't remember who it was atm)?
Other inspirations might be found in projects on sites like
Instructables.
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Oh... and please don't buy an ESP module, but get yourself a development board instead: they're equally cheap (see my signature below for links), but they'll save you a lot of trouble getting things to work the way you want.
![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon_idea.gif)
If you do decide to take the Pi-way, you'd better just buy a normal USB WiFi dongle, since getting the ESP to work using AT commands is pretty cumbersome.
Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups. At least: that's what I'm assuming.