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peterhinch / micropython-mqtt

A 'resilient' asynchronous MQTT driver. Recovers from WiFi and broker outages.
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Esp8266 for wifi and mqtt #138

Closed beetlegigg closed 3 months ago

beetlegigg commented 3 months ago

Hello Peter, before the picoW came out I'm sure I was using some of your mqtt libraries that used an esp8266 as the wifi for the pico and the communication twixt the two was via SPI. I think you had some similar examples for a pyboard and esp8266 combination.

Recently I put the latest mp on a Teensy 4 board that does not have wifi, and I thought of trying to get the old stuff for the esp8266 and pico and having a go at modifying it to work with the esp8266 and Teensy 4 combination.

But I cant seem to find whatever it was I was using back then. Probably I'm looking in the wrong place. Can you give my old eyes a break and point me to the right place where this stuff resides. Many Thanks.

peterhinch commented 3 months ago

I recently "retired" the mqtt-bridge project. It was developed when ESP8266 was the only MP device with WiFi. Given the limitations of ESP8266 and the benefits at the time of Pyboards it seemed a good idea. Now that WiFi enabled targets are everywhere there seemed little point in continuing to support it. I never saw much evidence of actual users - until now :)

If you want to access it you can clone the repo and check it out:

$ git checkout b29f5e37f541235664ef9a3d7ffe003d19ffc4fa

however I've dismantled my reference setup and won't be able to offer much support.

beetlegigg commented 3 months ago

Thanks Peter I've found your bridge directory.

I did try the git checkout though I'm not sure I did the right thing (never used github apart from download stuff that others have produced :-) ). I download git for my old intel based Mac and did the following:

iMacBG:mqtt-bridge:% git --version git version 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132) iMacBG:mqtt-bridge:% git checkout b29f5e37f541235664ef9a3d7ffe003d19ffc4fa fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git iMacBG:mqtt-bridge:%

But as you indicated you had recently retired the mqtt-bridge project I remembered I did download your mqtt repository not that long ago and perusing my downloads I found your micropython-mqtt-master dated 2nd December 2023 and there I found the Bridge directory.

So I think I'm good to go, and thanks again. I'll close this now.