We want to make the Alexa device talk directly to our ESP8266 chip, inside of our home, without sending anything out to the cloud and back. In the case of Alexa IoT, the command gets routed to a “device shadow” on Amazon’s cloud, which in the end results in a response being sent to some other device in your home. The Alexa “skill” takes over handling of the command normally it results in a response being sent back to the Alexa device, causing it to say something to the user in response. The speech command is routed to an Alexa “skill” (a program that runs in Amazon’s cloud).Alexa routes your speech all the way back to Amazon’s cloud.Just some background on Alexa programming: The Alexa “skills” programming model works like this: It’s what will enable the Alexa device and the chip to communicate with one another directly. Finally, we get to work with the popular ESP8266 chip, a favorite among do-it-yourselfers it’s an amazing little chip with ability to run all sorts of things, with a built-in Wifi chip that we will need for this project. As an added bonus, we get an insight into embedded programming with Arduino, a skill that’s maybe not so common among mainstream programmers these days. The beauty of this technique is that we can use it in our own homes to make Alexa automate almost literally anything that runs on electricity. The tutorial also gets our hands dirty with Alexa using an unofficial “hack” to get Alexa to do our bidding in the home (this technique is not meant for use in production, only for at-home demonstration). That's about it for this Instructable, not much to it but when I was starting out with Arduino it was all a bit confusing, a lot of it still is if I'm honest, its a learning curve as it is with everything.The objective of this ESP8266 Arduino tutorial is to get familiar with embedded programming with Arduino on a chip that’s become super popular among the maker community (and developers in general) for its accessibility and ease of use in the IoT space. If it was the Wemos D1 you were using in a sketch then click on that, there is a lot of text with the Wemos but we don't need to change anything apart from clicking on the Port with a Micro USB Cable plugged in of course:)įrom here on you should be able to compile your sketch and then upload. So with this part done we can now go back to the Ide and clicking on the Tools tab, Hovering the mouse over the Board "Arduino Yun" you will now see not only the Arduino AVR boards but below this there are now all the esp8266 boards listed.įor the Chinese clone Wemos D1 boards its usually the Lolin(Wemos)D1 R2 & Mini which is the only board I've really used with the NTP Time Word clocks etc.
#Esp8266 arduino install#
Looking along the top part of this Type should be All and to the right of this is the filter search box where you will type in esp this will bring up the esp8266 community platform, clicking on Install will load the latest version, you can update and uninstall from here as well if you ever need to. click on this and this opens up the Boards manager Interface, it sometimes takes time to add the platforms. Opening the Tools Tab, where it says Board "Arduino Yun" Highlighting this and looking to the right of this shows the AVR boards, above this it says Boards Manager.
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