[Coco] WiFi modem.

[Steve Pedersen]

The problem is hooking this up to a real Coco you need a high-speed
Hardware flow control serial port unless you are content with using the bit
Banger 9600 BPS.
Right now nobody has an rs-232 card for sale. I had wild plans of building
and making such a Serial card but realized very quickly that I do not have
the skills to program the firmware of the rs-232 card that I would build.
So let me just say that I would be more than willing to pay a great deal
for an rs-232 card with Hardware flow control and say something like 16 K
fifo buffers. That I could then use to talk to the ESP boards. There are
newer editions of the ESB boards I believe they're called the w32 these
cards not only do WiFi but Bluetooth and it breaks out i2c SPI and a bunch
of other things, right now our beloved Coco does not have any means to talk
to these cards at anything higher than 9600 BPS.

On Jan 18, 2018 9:24 PM, "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2018, at 10:58 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's interesting stuff, Allen.  The "stock" firmware of the ESP8266
> uses an AT command set but the actual commands are much different than the
> Hayes modem.  So I have a couple of questions: 1) How do you update the
> firmware on the ESP8266?  2) Are all iterations of the ESP8266 the same as
> far as firmware updates?
>
> The firmware was written using the Arduino IDE with the overlay to make it
> support ESP8266. I hope to try this soon, as I am very familiar with
> Arduino.
>
> I have a cheap USB to TTL adapter which can hook to the ESP8266, but it
> seems folks also use an Arduino to act as a pass through, using its USB
> serial input and Arduino TTL pins to talk to the ESP8266,
>
> >
> > I have a few of the ultra-cheap Chinese eBay ESP8266 boards but I've
> noticed that there are some other slightly different designs out there too.
>
> I should know more soon.
>
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