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sidoh / esp8266_milight_hub

Replacement for a Milight/LimitlessLED hub hosted on an ESP8266
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Why use NRF24L01+ and a ESP8266 and not a ESP8266-01s #664

Closed VirtualSquash closed 3 years ago

VirtualSquash commented 3 years ago

Hi everyone.

In advance I have not set up the hub yet because the parts for it are on the way.

But my Question is: why use the NRF24L01+ and not directly the NODMCU with his antenna for the hub?

And the second Question related to that is, why not use an ESP8266-01s all together?

Thanks for the Answers.

sidoh commented 3 years ago

Although the esp8266 does use a 2.4 ghz radio, the apis are not low enough level to send the appropriate milight packets. I think the lowest level apis allow you to send 802.11 packets. (This is last I checked, which was about 2 yrs ago. Possible things have changed)

Since the nrf24 is required, so are SPI pins. The esp8266-01 does not break out SPI pins, so is not a good option.

Hope that helps.

VirtualSquash commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the long response time. The Answer was exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks a lot.