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esp-wifi

Wi-Fi/BTLE coexistence is implemented but currently only works (to some extent) on ESP32-C3 and ESP32-S3. In general COEX shouldn't be used currently.

Minimum supported Rust compiler version: 1.65.0.0

This uses the WiFi drivers from https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-wireless-drivers-3rdparty

Version used

v5.1-dev-2658-g0025915dc4 commit 0025915dc489a9d45f99aed74920346f8ac4ec09

https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-wireless-drivers-3rdparty/ (commit f4caebff200e8f6f51b0a11d2b69ca56c76bb1c9)

Current support

If a cell contains am em dash (—) this means that the particular feature is not present for a chip. A check mark (✓) means that some driver implementation exists. An empty cell means that the feature is present in the chip but not implemented yet.

Wifi BLE Coex ESP-NOW
ESP32
ESP32-S2
ESP32-S3
ESP32-C3
ESP32-C2
ESP32-C6

Examples

To build these ensure you are in the examples-esp32XXX directory matching your target as othewise the config.toml will not apply

dhcp

  • set SSID and PASSWORD env variable
  • gets an ip address via DHCP
  • performs an HTTP get request to some "random" server

cargo run --example dhcp --release --features "embedded-svc,wifi"

static_ip

  • set SSID and PASSWORD env variable
  • set STATIC_IP and GATEWAY_IP env variable (e.g. "192.168.2.191" / "192.168.2.1")
  • might be necessary to configure your WiFi access point accordingly
  • uses the given static IP
  • responds with some HTML content when connecting to port 8080

cargo run --example static_ip --release --features "embedded-svc,wifi"

ble

  • starts Bluetooth advertising
  • offers one service with three characteristics (one is read/write, one is write only, one is read/write/notify)
  • pressing the boot-button on a dev-board will send a notification if it is subscribed
  • this uses a toy level BLE stack - might not work with every BLE central device (tested with Android and Windows Bluetooth LE Explorer)

cargo run --example ble --release --features "ble"

NOTE: ESP32-S2 doesn't support bluetooth, for ESP32-C6 bluetooth support isn't implemented yet

coex

  • set SSID and PASSWORD env variable
  • gets an ip address via DHCP
  • performs an HTTP get request to some "random" server
  • does BLE advertising
  • coex support is still somewhat flaky

cargo run --example coex --release --features "embedded-svc,wifi,ble"

NOTE: Not currently available for the ESP32, ESP32-C2, ESP32-C6 or ESP32-S2

esp_now

  • broadcasts, receives and sends messages via esp-now

cargo run --example esp_now --release --features "esp-now"

embassy_esp_now

  • broadcasts, receives and sends messages via esp-now in an async way

cargo run --example embassy_esp_now --release --features "async,esp-now"

embassy_dhcp

  • Read and Write to sockets over WiFi asyncronously using embassy-executor.

cargo run --example embassy_dhcp --release --features "async,embedded-svc,wifi,embassy-net"

access_point

  • creates an open access-point with SSID esp-wifi
  • you can connect to it using a static IP in range 192.168.2.2 .. 192.168.2.255, gateway 192.168.2.1
  • open http://192.168.2.1:8080/ in your browser
  • on Android you might need to choose Keep Accesspoint when it tells you the WiFi has no internet connection, Chrome might not want to load the URL - you can use a shell and try curl and ping

cargo run --example access_point --release --features "embedded-svc,wifi"

embassy_access_point

  • creates an open access-point with SSID esp-wifi
  • you can connect to it using a static IP in range 192.168.2.2 .. 192.168.2.255, gateway 192.168.2.1
  • open http://192.168.2.1:8080/ in your browser
  • on Android you might need to choose Keep Accesspoint when it tells you the WiFi has no internet connection, Chrome might not want to load the URL - you can use a shell and try curl and ping

cargorun --example embassy_access_point --release --features "async,embedded-svc,wifi,embassy-net"

Features

Feature Meaning
wifi-logs logs the WiFi logs from the driver at log level info
dump-packets dumps some packet info at log level info
utils Provide utilities for smoltcp initialization, this is a default feature
embedded-svc Provides a (very limited) implementation of the embedded-svc WiFi trait, includes utils feature
ble Enable BLE support
wifi Enable WiFi support
esp-now Enable esp-now support

Important

Optimization Level

It is necessary to build with optimization level 2 or 3 since otherwise it might not even be able to connect or advertise.

To make it work also for your debug builds add this to your Cargo.toml

[profile.dev.package.esp-wifi]
opt-level = 3

LTO

Link time optimization is not yet recommended for use, please ensure lto = "off" is in your Cargo.toml for both release and debug profiles.

Using Serial-JTAG

On ESP32-C3 / ESP32-S3 when using Serial-JTAG you have to activate the feature phy-enable-usb.

Don't use this feature if your are not using Serial-JTAG since it might reduce WiFi performance.

What works?

  • scanning for WiFi access points
  • connect to WiFi access point
  • providing an HCI interface
  • create an open access point

Notes on ESP32-C2 / ESP32-C3 / ESP32-C6 support

  • uses SYSTIMER as the main timer
  • doesn't work in direct-boot mode

Notes on ESP32 / ESP32-S2 / ESP32-S3 support

  • The WiFi logs only print the format string - not the actual values.
  • The code runs on a single core and might currently not be multi-core safe!

On ESP32 / ESP32-S2 / ESP32-S3 currently TIMG1/TIMER0 is used as the main timer so you can't use it for anything else. Additionally it uses CCOMPARE0 - so don't touch that, too.

opt-level for Xtensa targets

Currently your mileage might vary a lot for different opt-levels on Xtensa targets! If something doesn't work as expected try a different opt-level.

Directory Structure

  • src/timer-espXXX.rs: systimer code used for timing and task switching
  • src/preemt/: a bare minimum RISCV and Xtensa round-robin task scheduler
  • src/compat/: code needed to emulate enough of an (RT)OS to use the driver
    • common.rs: basics like semaphores and recursive mutexes
    • timer_compat.rs: code to emulate timer related functionality
  • examples/*.rs: examples

Missing / To be done

  • lots of refactoring
  • make CoEx work on ESP32 (it kind of works when commenting out setting the country in wifi_start, probably some mis-compilation since it then crashes in a totally different code path)
  • combined SoftAP/STA mode
  • support for non-open SoftAP

Using in your own binary crate

For now this is not available on crates.io. Until then you need to specify a git dependency. You might want to pin the dependency to a specific commit since this things might change a lot during development.

Make sure to include the rom functions for your target like this

rustflags = [
    "-C", "link-arg=-Tlinkall.x",
    "-C", "link-arg=-Trom_functions.x",
]

in your .cargo/config.toml - otherwise you will get linker errors complaining about missing symbols.

License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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