Recent Updates (20th Oct 2018)

esp-go  –  Pete Scargill’s re-badged “Hackitt & Bodgitt” code for a universal i2c Nano peripheral extender for the ESP8266.

Pete has mainly been updating the documentation for his code over the past couple of weeks.  In the latest release, the name has changed to “esp-go.doc” to reflect the re-branding.

 

badgy  –  SQFMI’s “Swiss Army” e-Ink badge,based on the ESP-12F.

SQFMI has updated the code to work with the latest version (3.0) of the GxEPD library.

 

mobile-rr  –  idolpx’s ESP8266 Mobile Rick-Roll Captive Portal.

idolpx has added some images to the documentation to help novice ESP8266 users get a better grasp of what they’re doing, as well as updating the code to add DNS overrides and improve the WiFi scan filtering.

 

Sonoff-Tasmota  –  Theo Arends’ all-purpose replacement for Sonoff firmware.

Theo has been steadily updating and improving the 6.2.1 version of his firmware with (in no particular order):-

• A change to a non-blocking MQTT library as the default.
• Add support for the DS3231 RTC.
• Add TasmotaModbus library.
• Add support for the HX711 load cell.
• Add support for Pzem energy monitors.

…as well as various fixes.

 

IRremoteESP8266  –  A library to enable IR send and receive on the ESP8266.

Mark has updated the package to support Disney’s “Made With Magic” protocol.

 

 

 

Recent Updates

JLed – a library to provide painless control of LED blinking, breathing and fading effects.

Jan Delgado has updated his JLed library a couple of times over the past week.  The first update was a change specific to the ESP8266 to improve the 8-bit to 10-bit scaling, so that LEDs now reach full brightness.  The second change is the addition of a boolean return value to the Update() function to indicate whether the target effect is still active, or has completed.

OpenMQTTGateway – Bidirectional gateway for the integration of 433MHz, BLE and IR devices with MQTT.

Florian has made a small change to his OpenMQTTGateway to make the “TRACE” function compile-time selectable, in order to reduce the overall code size for those who don’t use it.

IRremoteESP8266 – A library to enable IR send and receive on the ESP8266.

Mark and his various contributors (including “crankyoldgit”) have added initial support for Elektra, Samsung and Whirlpool air-conditioners and experimental support for  Coolix and Lutron.  There are also additional fixes for Mitsubishi A/C and the IRMQTTServer code.

Esparto – A rapid development framework for ESP8266

Phil Bowles has added MQTT username & password functionality to his (relatively new) rev-2 version of Esparto, as well as fixing a couple of minor bugs.

 

esp8266-weather-station-color – An ESP8266 and ILI9341/XPT2046 based weather display.

Daniel and Marcel continue to update the colour weather-station display, with fixes for some I18N and WiFi issues.