Espressif 8266¶

Packages¶

Frameworks¶

Boards¶

Custom CPU Frequency¶

See board_f_cpu option from Project Configuration File platformio.ini

[env:myenv]
; set frequency to 160MHz
board_f_cpu = 160000000L

Custom FLASH Frequency¶

See board_f_flash option from Project Configuration File platformio.ini. Possible values:

• 20000000L

• 26000000L

• 40000000L

• 80000000L

[env:myenv]
; set frequency to 80MHz
board_f_flash = 80000000L

Custom FLASH Mode¶

Flash chip interface mode. This parameter is stored in the binary image header, along with the flash size and flash frequency. The ROM bootloader in the ESP chip uses the value of these parameters in order to know how to talk to the flash chip.

See board_flash_mode option from Project Configuration File platformio.ini. Possible values:

• qio

• qout

• dio

• dout

[env:myenv]
board_flash_mode = qio

Custom Reset Method¶

You can set custom reset method using upload_resetmethod option from Project Configuration File platformio.ini.

The possible values are:

• ck - RTS controls RESET or CH_PD, DTR controls GPIO0

• wifio - TXD controls GPIO0 via PNP transistor and DTR controls RESET via a capacitor

• nodemcu - GPIO0 and RESET controlled using two NPN transistors as in NodeMCU devkit.

See default reset methods per board.

[env:myenv]
upload_resetmethod = ck

Custom Flash Size¶

The list with preconfigured LD scripts is located in public repository platformio-pkg-ldscripts.

• esp8266.flash.512k0.ld 512K (no SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.512k64.ld 512K (64K SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.1m64.ld 1M (64K SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.1m128.ld 1M (128K SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.1m256.ld 1M (256K SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.1m512.ld 1M (512K SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.2m.ld 2M (1M SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.4m1m.ld 4M (1M SPIFFS)

• esp8266.flash.4m.ld 4M (3M SPIFFS)

To override default LD script please use build_flags from Project Configuration File platformio.ini.

[env:myenv]
build_flags = -Wl,-Tesp8266.flash.4m.ld

Custom Upload Speed¶

You can set custom upload speed using upload_speed option from Project Configuration File platformio.ini

[env:myenv]
upload_speed = 9600

Uploading files to file system SPIFFS¶

1. Initialize project platformio init (if you have not initialized yet)

2. Create data folder (it should be on the same level as src folder) and put files here. Also, you can specify own location for data_dir

3. Run buildfs or uploadfs target using platformio run --target command.

To upload SPIFFS image using OTA update please specify upload_port / --upload-port as IP address or mDNS host name (ending with the *.local). For the details please follow to Over-the-Air (OTA) update.

By default, will be used default LD Script for the board where is specified SPIFFS offsets (start, end, page, block). You can override it using Custom Flash Size.

Active discussion is located in issue #382.

Over-the-Air (OTA) update¶

Firstly, please read What is OTA? How to use it?

There are 2 options:

• Directly specify platformio run --upload-port in command line

platformio run --target upload --upload-port IP_ADDRESS_HERE or mDNS_NAME.local

• Specify upload_port option in Project Configuration File platformio.ini

[env:myenv]
upload_port = IP_ADDRESS_HERE or mDNS_NAME.local

For example,

• platformio run -t upload --upload-port 192.168.0.255

• platformio run -t upload --upload-port myesp8266.local

[env:myenv]
upload_flags = --port=8266

~/.platformio/packages/tool-espotapy/espota.py -h

Usage: espota.py [options]

Transmit image over the air to the esp8266 module with OTA support.

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  Destination:
    -i ESP_IP, --ip=ESP_IP
                        ESP8266 IP Address.
    -p ESP_PORT, --port=ESP_PORT
                        ESP8266 ota Port. Default 8266

  Authentication:
    -a AUTH, --auth=AUTH
                        Set authentication password.

  Image:
    -f FILE, --file=FILE
                        Image file.
    -s, --spiffs        Use this option to transmit a SPIFFS image and do not
                        flash the module.

  Output:
    -d, --debug         Show debug output. And override loglevel with debug.
    -r, --progress      Show progress output. Does not work for ArduinoIDE

Demo¶

Using Arduino Framework with Staging version¶

PlatformIO will install the latest Arduino Core for ESP8266 from https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino. The Git should be installed in a system. To update Arduino Core to the latest revision, please use platformio platform update command.

1. Install Espressif 8266 (Stage) development platform

   platformio platform install https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266.git#feature/stage
   

2. Set platform to espressif8266_stage in Project Configuration File platformio.ini. For example,

   [env:nodemcuv2]
   platform = espressif8266_stage
   board = nodemcuv2
   framework = arduino
   

3. Try to build project

4. If you see build errors, then try to build this project using the same stage with Arduino IDE

5. If it works with Arduino IDE but doesn’t work with PlatformIO, please file new issue with attached information:

   • test project/files

   • detailed log of build process from Arduino IDE (please copy it from console to http://pastebin.com)

   • detailed log of build process from PlatformIO Build System ( please copy it from console to http://pastebin.com)

Articles¶

• Jun 23, 2017 - Naresh Krish - Home Automation Using Wiscore, OpenHab and PlatformIO

• Jan 12, 2017 - Tiest van Gool - OTA: PlatformIO and ESP8266

• Sep 12, 2016 - Pedro Minatel - OTA – Como programar o ESP8266 pelo WiFi no platformIO (OTA programming for ESP8266 via Wi-Fi using PlatformIO, Portuguese)

• Sep 2, 2016 - Tinkerman Optimizing files for SPIFFS with Gulp

• Jul 15, 2016 - Jaime - ESP8266 Mobile Rick Roll Captive Portal

• Jun 13, 2016 - Daniel Eichhorn - New Weather Station Demo on Github

• Jun 3, 2016 - Daniel Eichhorn - ESP8266: Continuous Delivery Pipeline – Push To Production

• May 29, 2016 - Chris Synan - Reverse Engineer RF Remote Controller for IoT!

• May 22, 2016 - Pedro Minatel - Estação meteorológica com ESP8266 (Weather station with ESP8266, Portuguese)

• May 16, 2016 - Pedro Minatel - Controle remoto WiFi com ESP8266 (WiFi remote control using ESP8266, Portuguese)

• May 08, 2016 - Radoslaw Bob - Touch controlled buzzer (Nodemcu ESP8266)

• Mar 07, 2016 - Joran Jessurun - Nieuwe wereld met PlatformIO (New world with PlatformIO, Dutch)

• Feb 25, 2016 - NutDIY - PlatformIO Blink On Nodemcu Dev Kit V1.0 (ESP 12-E)

• Feb 23, 2016 - Ptarmigan Labs - ESP8266 Over The Air updating – what are the options?

• Jan 16, 2016 - Dani Eichhorn - ESP8266 Arduino IDE Alternative: PlatformIO

• Dec 22, 2015 - Jan Penninkhof - Over-the-Air ESP8266 programming using PlatformIO

• Dec 01, 2015 - Tateno Yuichi - ESP8266 を CUI で開発する (Develop a ESP8266 in CUI, Japanese)

See more Articles about us.

Examples¶

All project examples are located in PlatformIO repository Examples for Espressif 8266 platform.

• Native SDK

• WebServer

• WiFiScan