esp_wifi_repeater VS Arduino

esp32s and esp8266s are my favorite pieces of hardware... for $2 you can setup a wifi access point

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

Here's a project that can at best route traffic at 1Mbps. https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

My mum has a portable WiFi device which is most time in her room, so the WiFi doesn't get to the living room and that's a problem but I love to solve problems so i did some googling and I found a GitHub repository for an ESP8266 repeater by martin-ger,the repo had a binary file for the repeater so I just flashed it into my esp8266 using esptool and it worked like magic. Click here to access the repository; however, there were some problems I had with this repeater(extender):

yeah, ESPs aren't general purpose computers but they are still very capable (I used one as a "router" before to create a network in my car: https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater)

The esp is really capable, have a look at this for example: https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

This is is possible, and much more, see e.g. https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater for an SDK based example, or https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/ESP8266WiFi/examples/RangeExtender-NAPT/RangeExtender-NAPT.ino for an Arduino based example.

The result is that the WiFiSecureClient doesn't work when used in the bot declaration, so I changed the variable to WiFiClient but I can't use the certificate, so I comment it out and ESP8266.h gives me a thousand errors due to lack of dependencies in its libraries. I should point out that I downloaded the entire project from the Arduino ESP8266, I don't know how to link all the libraries, so I simply took those from the ESP8266WiFi.

#include #include "time.h" #include "sntp.h" char* ssid = "WIFI"; char* password = "w1fi"; const char* ntpServer1 = "pool.ntp.org"; const char* ntpServer2 = "time.nist.gov"; const long gmtOffset_sec = 3600; const int daylightOffset_sec = 3600; const char* time_zone = "CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3"; // TimeZone rule for Europe/Rome including daylight adjustment rules (optional) void printLocalTime() { struct tm timeinfo; if(!getLocalTime(&timeinfo)){ Serial.println("No time available (yet)"); return; } Serial.println(&timeinfo, "%A, %B %d %Y %H:%M:%S"); } // Callback function (get's called when time adjusts via NTP) void timeavailable(struct timeval *t) { Serial.println("Got time adjustment from NTP!"); printLocalTime(); } void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); // set notification call-back function sntp_set_time_sync_notification_cb( timeavailable ); /** * NTP server address could be aquired via DHCP, * * NOTE: This call should be made BEFORE esp32 aquires IP address via DHCP, * otherwise SNTP option 42 would be rejected by default. * NOTE: configTime() function call if made AFTER DHCP-client run * will OVERRIDE aquired NTP server address */ //sntp_servermode_dhcp(1); // (optional) /** * This will set configured ntp servers and constant TimeZone/daylightOffset * should be OK if your time zone does not need to adjust daylightOffset twice a year, * in such a case time adjustment won't be handled automagicaly. */ configTime(gmtOffset_sec, daylightOffset_sec, ntpServer1, ntpServer2); /** * A more convenient approach to handle TimeZones with daylightOffset * would be to specify a environmnet variable with TimeZone definition including daylight adjustmnet rules. * A list of rules for your zone could be obtained from https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/cores/esp8266/TZ.h */ //configTzTime(time_zone, ntpServer1, ntpServer2); //connect to WiFi Serial.printf("Connecting to %s ", ssid); WiFi.begin(ssid, password); while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) { delay(500); Serial.print("."); } Serial.println(" CONNECTED"); } void loop() { delay(5000); printLocalTime(); // it will take some time to sync time :) }

Maybe check out the canonical page instead: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

The esp8266 can run its own filesystem. Try to take a look at the following example: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/LittleFS/examples/LittleFS_Timestamp/LittleFS_Timestamp.ino

; PlatformIO Project Configuration File [platformio] # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # ENVIRONMENTS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Release / CI binaries default_envs = adafruit_feather_esp32s3 src_dir = ./wled00 data_dir = ./wled00/data build_cache_dir = ~/.buildcache extra_configs = platformio_override.ini [common] # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # PLATFORM: # !! DO NOT confuse platformio's ESP8266 development platform with Arduino core for ESP8266 # # arduino core 2.6.3 = platformIO 2.3.2 # arduino core 2.7.0 = platformIO 2.5.0 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ arduino_core_2_6_3 = [email protected] arduino_core_2_7_4 = [email protected] arduino_core_3_0_0 = [email protected] arduino_core_3_2_0 = [email protected] # Development platforms arduino_core_develop = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266#develop arduino_core_git = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266#feature/stage # Platform to use for ESP8266 platform_wled_default = ${common.arduino_core_3_2_0} # We use 2.7.4.7 for all, includes PWM flicker fix and Wstring optimization platform_packages = tasmota/framework-arduinoespressif8266 @ 3.20704.7 platformio/toolchain-xtensa @ ~2.40802.200502 platformio/tool-esptool @ ~1.413.0 platformio/tool-esptoolpy @ ~1.30000.0 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # FLAGS: DEBUG # # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ debug_flags = -D DEBUG=1 -D WLED_DEBUG -DDEBUG_ESP_WIFI -DDEBUG_ESP_HTTP_CLIENT -DDEBUG_ESP_HTTP_UPDATE -DDEBUG_ESP_HTTP_SERVER -DDEBUG_ESP_UPDATER -DDEBUG_ESP_OTA -DDEBUG_TLS_MEM #if needed (for memleaks etc) also add; -DDEBUG_ESP_OOM -include "umm_malloc/umm_malloc_cfg.h" #-DDEBUG_ESP_CORE is not working right now # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # FLAGS: ldscript (available ldscripts at https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/tree/master/tools/sdk/ld) # ldscript_2m1m (2048 KB) = 1019 KB sketch, 4 KB eeprom, 1004 KB spiffs, 16 KB reserved # ldscript_4m1m (4096 KB) = 1019 KB sketch, 4 KB eeprom, 1002 KB spiffs, 16 KB reserved, 2048 KB empty/ota? # # Available lwIP variants (macros): # -DPIO_FRAMEWORK_ARDUINO_LWIP_HIGHER_BANDWIDTH = v1.4 Higher Bandwidth (default) # -DPIO_FRAMEWORK_ARDUINO_LWIP2_LOW_MEMORY = v2 Lower Memory # -DPIO_FRAMEWORK_ARDUINO_LWIP2_HIGHER_BANDWIDTH = v2 Higher Bandwidth # -DPIO_FRAMEWORK_ARDUINO_LWIP2_HIGHER_BANDWIDTH_LOW_FLASH # # BearSSL performance: # When building with -DSECURE_CLIENT=SECURE_CLIENT_BEARSSL, please add `board_build.f_cpu = 160000000` to the environment configuration # # BearSSL ciphers: # When building on core >= 2.5, you can add the build flag -DBEARSSL_SSL_BASIC in order to build BearSSL with a limited set of ciphers: # TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 / AES128-SHA256 # TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 / AES256-SHA256 # TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA / AES128-SHA # TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA / AES256-SHA # This reduces the OTA size with ~45KB, so it's especially useful on low memory boards (512k/1m). # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ build_flags = -DMQTT_MAX_PACKET_SIZE=1024 -DSECURE_CLIENT=SECURE_CLIENT_BEARSSL -DBEARSSL_SSL_BASIC -D CORE_DEBUG_LEVEL=0 -D NDEBUG #build_flags for the IRremoteESP8266 library (enabled decoders have to appear here) -D _IR_ENABLE_DEFAULT_=false -D DECODE_HASH=true -D DECODE_NEC=true -D DECODE_SONY=true -D DECODE_SAMSUNG=true -D DECODE_LG=true ; -Dregister= # remove warnings in C++17 due to use of deprecated register keyword by the FastLED library -DWLED_USE_MY_CONFIG ; -D USERMOD_SENSORSTOMQTT #For ADS1115 sensor uncomment following ; -D USERMOD_ADS1115 build_unflags = build_flags_esp8266 = ${common.build_flags} ${esp8266.build_flags} build_flags_esp32 = ${common.build_flags} ${esp32.build_flags} ldscript_1m128k = eagle.flash.1m128.ld ldscript_2m512k = eagle.flash.2m512.ld ldscript_2m1m = eagle.flash.2m1m.ld ldscript_4m1m = eagle.flash.4m1m.ld [scripts_defaults] extra_scripts = pre:pio-scripts/set_version.py post:pio-scripts/output_bins.py post:pio-scripts/strip-floats.py pre:pio-scripts/user_config_copy.py # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # COMMON SETTINGS: # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [env] framework = arduino board_build.flash_mode = dout monitor_speed = 115200 upload_speed = 921600 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # LIBRARIES: required dependencies # Please note that we don't always use the latest version of a library. # # The following libraries have been included (and some of them changd) in the source: # [email protected], [email protected](changed), [email protected](changed), [email protected], [email protected] # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ lib_compat_mode = strict lib_deps = fastled/FastLED @ 3.5.0 IRremoteESP8266 @ 2.8.2 https://github.com/Aircoookie/ESPAsyncWebServer.git @ ~2.0.7 extra_scripts = ${scripts_defaults.extra_scripts} [esp32] #platform = https://github.com/tasmota/platform-espressif32/releases/download/v2.0.2.3/platform-espressif32-2.0.2.3.zip platform = [email protected] platform_packages = framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/Aircoookie/arduino-esp32.git#1.0.6.4 build_flags = -g -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32 ;-DCONFIG_LITTLEFS_FOR_IDF_3_2 -D CONFIG_ASYNC_TCP_USE_WDT=0 #use LITTLEFS library by lorol in ESP32 core 1.x.x instead of built-in in 2.x.x -D LOROL_LITTLEFS default_partitions = tools/WLED_ESP32_4MB_1MB_FS.csv lib_deps = ${env.lib_deps} https://github.com/lorol/LITTLEFS.git makuna/NeoPixelBus @ 2.6.9 https://github.com/pbolduc/AsyncTCP.git @ 1.2.0 [esp32c3] build_flags = -g -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32 -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32C3 -DCONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32C3 -D CONFIG_ASYNC_TCP_USE_WDT=0 -DCO lib_deps = ${env.lib_deps} makuna/NeoPixelBus @ 2.6.9 https://github.com/pbolduc/AsyncTCP.git @ 1.2.0 [esp32s3] ;; generic definitions for all ESP32-S3 boards build_flags = -g -DESP32 -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32 -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32S3 -DCONFIG_IDF_TARGET_ESP32S3 -D CONFIG_ASYNC_TCP_USE_WDT=0 -DCO lib_deps = ${env.lib_deps} ;; NeoPixelBus 2.7.1 is the first that has official support for ESP32-S3 makuna/NeoPixelBus @ ~2.7.1 https://github.com/pbolduc/AsyncTCP.git @ 1.2.0 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # WLED BUILDS # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [env:esp32c3] platform = [email protected] framework = arduino board = esp32-c3-devkitm-1 board_build.partitions = tools/WLED_ESP32_4MB_1MB_FS.csv build_flags = ${common.build_flags} ${esp32c3.build_flags} #-D WLED_RELEASE_NAME=ESP32-C3 -D WLED_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT=0 upload_speed = 460800 build_unflags = ${common.build_unflags} lib_deps = ${esp32c3.lib_deps} [env:adafruit_feather_esp32s3] ;; Adafruit ESP32-S3 Feather board, with 4MB FLASH and 2MB PSRAM (memory_type: qio_opi, qio_qspi, or opi_opi) board = adafruit_feather_esp32s3 platform = espressif32 @ ~5.2.0 board_build.f_cpu = 240000000L platform_packages = upload_speed = 921600 build_unflags = ${common.build_unflags} build_flags = ${common.build_flags} ${esp32s3.build_flags} -D CONFIG_LITTLEFS_FOR_IDF_3_2 -D WLED_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT=0 -D ARDUINO_USB_MODE=1 -D ARDUINO_USB_MSC_ON_BOOT=0 ; -D ARDUINO_USB_CDC_ON_BOOT=0 ; -D WLED_RELEASE_NAME=ESP32-S3_PSRAM -D WLED_USE_PSRAM -DBOARD_HAS_PSRAM ; tells WLED that PSRAM shall be used ; -D CONFIG_LITTLEFS_SPIFFS_COMPAT=1 ; lib_deps = ${esp32s3.lib_deps} board_build.f_flash = 80000000L board_build.flash_mode = qio monitor_filters = esp32_exception_decoder

You can't convert the ino file to bin. You need to install the ESP8266 addon in the Arduino IDE, then open the sketch and create the bin file. The Nodemcu is also a ESP8266 - you only need 1 bin file. https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino