THIS DRIVER IS EXPERIMENTAL Currently this driver is not stable, so we recommend to use ESP8266 AT commands directly.

ESP8266-driver

Kaluma network device driver for ESP8266 module (AT command). This module implements netdev and ieee80211dev device drivers using ESP8266 AT commands. With this device drivers you can use following builtin modules:

• wifi
• net
• http

Tested firmware versions:

Module	Manufacturer	AT version	SDK version
ESP-01	Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.	1.2.0.0	1.5.4.1

Wiring

Here is a wiring example for UART0.

Raspberry Pi Pico	ESP8266
3V3	VCC, CH_PD
GND	GND
GP0 (UART0 TX)	RXD
GP1 (UART0 RX)	TXD

Install

npm install https://github.com/niklauslee/esp8266-driver

Usage

If you wired ESP8266 module to UART0 you can setup simply as below:

require("esp8266-driver")
  .setup()
  .then(() => {
    // ...
  });

Otherwise you can setup with an UART instance as below.

var UART = require("uart").UART;
var serial0 = new UART(0, { bufferSize: 4096 });
var esp8266 = require("esp8266-driver");
esp8266.setup(serial0).then(() => {
  // ...
});

You can see all AT commands and response in Terminal if you pass debug parameter as true.

require("esp8266-driver")
  .setup(null, { debug: true })
  .then(() => {
    // ...
  });

The classes in wifi, net, http builtin modules should be instantiated after setup().

var WiFi = require("wifi").WiFi;
require("esp8266-driver")
  .setup()
  .then(() => {
    var wifi = new WiFi();
    var connectInfo = { ssid: "iptime", password: "12345678" };
    wifi.connect(connectInfo, (err) => {
      // ...
    });
  });

We recommend you do not place Wi-Fi SSID and password in the code. Instead, you can enter WIFI_SSID and WIFI_PASSWORD using Storage API as below in Terminal.

> storage.setItem('WIFI_SSID', 'your_ssid');
> storage.setItem('WIFI_PASSWORD', 'your_password');

Then, you can connect Wi-Fi without connection info as below:

var WiFi = require("wifi").WiFi;
require("esp8266-driver")
  .setup()
  .then(() => {
    var wifi = new WiFi();
    wifi.connect((err) => {
      // ...
    });
  });

API

esp8266.setup([serial[, options]])

• serial <UART> A serial connected to ESP8266 module. If this parameter is omitted, UART0 is used as default. Default: UART0.
• options <object> Options to be passed to internal AT command class.
• Returns: <Promise>

Initialize ESP8266 module.

Limitations

Socket address and port

Socket connection doesn't have localAddress, localPort, removeAddress, removePort. The reason is that the info is not provided at the time of connection using AT command. Extra AT command (AT+CIPSTATUS) is required to get the info.

If you need the info necessarily, recommend to use AT command directly.

Half-close

Half-closing is not supported. Trying to half-close will cause just close.

Don't support keep-alive

Web browsers uses keep-alive connection by adding Connection: keep-alive in HTTP request headers.

Testing

To run test cases on the board.

$ kaluma flash ./test.js --bundle --shell