Author Topic: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules  (Read 5638 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline TJ232Topic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 331
  • Country: 00
  • www.esp8266-projects.org
    • ESP8266 Projects
OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« on: March 10, 2015, 10:24:29 am »
   New OLIMEX ESP8266 modules and Dev Board looks promising:
http://www.esp8266-projects.com/2015/03/mailbag-arrival-new-esp-modules-in-town.html

   It's Open Source Hardware, from a well known thrusted provider for development tools and programmers for embedded market. Produced under strict EU Rules and regulations.
9.95EUR and quick delivery. In Europe you can have it on your desk in 2 days, in US in 3-5.

   I am not afiliated in any way with OLIMEX. Just like their products quality and still pissed off of by the ESP-07 Story :http://www.esp8266-projects.com/2015/02/esp-07-module-problem-and-fix.html.

   The last 4 modules ordered on Ebay, 2 arrived with the same problem, despite the fact I was assured they are OK. 2 never arrived. The chinese supplier not answering at any messages.

   Nice customer support, huh?
ESP8266 Projects - www.esp8266-projects.org
MPDMv4 Dimmer Board available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/next_evo1/
 

Offline Howardlong

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5315
  • Country: gb
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2015, 11:09:47 pm »
Coincidentally, I ordered a few of each last week and they arrived yesterday, they ended up in a drawer though, too many other things going on. I hadn't realised they're new, maybe I'll have a look sooner than I thought.
 

Offline zapta

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 6189
  • Country: us
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2015, 12:32:12 am »
The clone is more expensive than the original. That's a first :)
 

Offline Howardlong

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5315
  • Country: gb
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2015, 01:07:29 pm »
I did some brief tests with these boards a day or so ago, it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP, is this likely to always be the case?
 

Online tszaboo

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 7306
  • Country: nl
  • Current job: ATEX product design
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2015, 03:15:02 pm »
They are going to use the whatever core microcontroller and the Lua or what programming language with the chinese datasheet? Doh.
 

Offline TJ232Topic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 331
  • Country: 00
  • www.esp8266-projects.org
    • ESP8266 Projects
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2015, 06:12:23 pm »
I did some brief tests with these boards a day or so ago, it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP, is this likely to always be the case?

Didn't use them yet in AP mode but all it's related with the uploaded ESP8266 firmware. Don't have access to them now for a test but in Client mode didn't had any problem with WPA/WPA2 mode.

ESP8266 Projects - www.esp8266-projects.org
MPDMv4 Dimmer Board available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/next_evo1/
 

Offline Howardlong

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 5315
  • Country: gb
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2015, 06:35:35 pm »
I did some brief tests with these boards a day or so ago, it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP, is this likely to always be the case?

Didn't use them yet in AP mode but all it's related with the uploaded ESP8266 firmware. Don't have access to them now for a test but in Client mode didn't had any problem with WPA/WPA2 mode.

Yes, the infrastructure client mode worked fine on WPA2, it was the AP mode I was looking at. I was wondering if there was firmware that fixed that.

It appears that there is some work going on what with toolchains and whatnot, is that for fiddling with the firmware itself or something less dramatic?
 

Offline TJ232Topic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 331
  • Country: 00
  • www.esp8266-projects.org
    • ESP8266 Projects
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2015, 12:11:56 pm »
I did some brief tests with these boards a day or so ago, it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP, is this likely to always be the case?

Didn't use them yet in AP mode but all it's related with the uploaded ESP8266 firmware. Don't have access to them now for a test but in Client mode didn't had any problem with WPA/WPA2 mode.

Yes, the infrastructure client mode worked fine on WPA2, it was the AP mode I was looking at. I was wondering if there was firmware that fixed that.

It appears that there is some work going on what with toolchains and whatnot, is that for fiddling with the firmware itself or something less dramatic?

They are already some easy toochain install images available this is just one way to do it, but worth a look:
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1186

Probably some bug in AP mode stuff...
 
ESP8266 Projects - www.esp8266-projects.org
MPDMv4 Dimmer Board available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/next_evo1/
 

Offline westfw

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 4196
  • Country: us
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2015, 09:02:42 am »
 
Quote
it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP
How did you tell?
 

Offline zapta

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 6189
  • Country: us
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2015, 11:59:17 pm »
Quote
it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP
How did you tell?

SSL implementation is shaky. I am still trying to make outgoing SSL connection to a standard web site. BTW, the Lua image is more friendly than the AT commands version.
 

Offline westfw

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 4196
  • Country: us
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2015, 04:09:29 am »
SSL is TCP level encryption.  I assumed you were talking about some link-level encryption (WPA, WEP, etc.)
 

Offline TJ232Topic starter

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 331
  • Country: 00
  • www.esp8266-projects.org
    • ESP8266 Projects
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2015, 05:30:47 am »
Quote
it looks like the stock firmware does not support encryption when used as an AP
How did you tell?

SSL implementation is shaky. I am still trying to make outgoing SSL connection to a standard web site. BTW, the Lua image is more friendly than the AT commands version.

Way more friendly!
Obviously NodeMCU Lua has the drawbacks and limitations of an Interpreter but with the new node.compile() option starts looking pretty decent for basic projects.
ESP8266 Projects - www.esp8266-projects.org
MPDMv4 Dimmer Board available on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/next_evo1/
 

Offline Muxr

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 1369
  • Country: us
Re: OLIMEX new ESP8266 Modules
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2015, 01:30:51 am »
Ordered a few of these. It looks like a right solution for a project I am working on. So thanks for posting about esp8266. Very informative stuff.
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf