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ESP8266 Simulation #314

Open wavesailor opened 2 years ago

wavesailor commented 2 years ago

Please could we get support for the ESP8266. I know it is older but there are still so many of them being used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

urish commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! What would you use the ESP8266 for?

wavesailor commented 2 years ago

Firstly I'd like to try build all those weather stations with the ESP8266. This website has this one: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-dht11dht22-temperature-and-humidity-web-server-with-arduino-ide/ I then like to add a battery to it if possible.

urish commented 2 years ago

Thanks! I opened this request for voting

Jacopo1891 commented 2 years ago

Adding ESP8266 would be good for me too. It's very cheap and easy to use. I am also using this mcu.

juliocr1 commented 2 years ago

The use of ESP8266 is very vast, we have many projects distributed, this simulator would be a very important resource.

urish commented 2 years ago

we have many projects distributed

Who is "we"? What projects do you have?

juliocr1 commented 2 years ago

we have many projects distributed

Who is "we"? What projects do you have?

when I say we, I'm referring to all the electronics and microcontroller enthusiasts that we can find distributed on the internet. Regarding projects, there are a lot of projects using ESP8266, mainly IOT projects, where we can control devices and obtain telemetry. these control and data acquisition projects with low cost devices are my favorites. See this example of a module communicating with another module using a database ( https://wokwi.com/projects/341622429773202004 and https://wokwi.com/projects/341529357688242770)

urish commented 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your thoughts @juliocr1!

donald2407 commented 1 year ago

Please get support for the ESP8266.

The3ven commented 1 year ago

I'm upvoting for the esp8266 board too because I need to learn how this thing works for my FTP server

mlrlino commented 1 year ago

I would also like a ESP8266 with arduino uno sketch

Ricardo-SS commented 1 year ago

Adding ESP8266 would be good for me too. It's very cheap and easy to use. I am also using this mcu.

infrafast commented 1 year ago

I would like to have the simulator as well.

urish commented 1 year ago

Update: we open sourced a basic ESP8266 simulation library

https://github.com/wokwi/esp8266js

hanpal commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion! What would you use the ESP8266 for?

I use it for all my projects since it's much cheaper than the ESP32. I have programmed about 50 ESP8266 using Wemos D1 mini or pro for home automation projects and have never even considered using ESP32 since the much cheaper ESP8266 has always been more than sufficient. And it has NOT been replaced by the ESP32.

Some examples of my projects:

Laurent6012 commented 5 months ago

Hello, And to be honest, like my father said, it's not usefull to use a hammer to kill a fly. ESP8266 have alreday access to Wifi, enough IO for basical current and simply tasks. the IOT's world isn't only for rich people, not be ? So, using an ESP32 to manage only 1 sonde of temperature and humidity and even sending the result, my god, it's the perfect way to really becoming poor soon, i laugh. No matter, have a good day

Vaelek commented 2 months ago

Man I was so psyched when I accidentally found Wowki, and then so bummed when I realized there was no 8266. As this has been open for over 2 years now, will this ever be added? I saw the post about the open source library, but I'm not really sure if or how it fits into Wowki.

urish commented 2 months ago

TL;DR - not very likely, unless some big commercial customer will express interest and cover the development costs.

Also, note that the ESP8266 may no longer be available anymore in 18 months from now.

Ricardo-SS commented 2 months ago

Considering the prices prevailing on the market today and the availability of several esp32 models, I think it will no longer be an advantage to develop for the esp8266, I am migrating all my projects to the esp32 as the prices are almost the same. I think it's a waste of resources to use an esp32 in some projects, but as they are almost the same value, it's better to have the resources that are missing.