A configuration tool for ESP32 & ESP8266 devices
I work with ESP32 & ESP8266 for various embedded projects and I have found the Arduino IDE to be rather primitive compared to almost every other IDE I have used however it has one huge advantage, it gives me an easy to use tool and common core for a wide range of SOC based boards with Atmel, ARM, ESP and several other processors along with very easy uploading to the target
The IDE is of course targeted at hobbyists so many of the libraries are written by non-professional coders leading to code quality and license issues for commercial developers
Some amateur code is very good, unfortunately I would not class the available web based ESP configuration tools among them
As ESP devices are very low cost and include WiFi, they are strong candidates for low cost WiFi enabled IOT devices
It is because of this that I have decided to integrate various code chunks from a few different projects into a library that will address the config problem
It is being developed with the following goals
- Ease of use ✅
- Persistent settings using a config file stored in SPIFFS ✅
- Time setting functions ✅
- OTA updates ✅
- User control ✅
- Online registration of the user & device (work in progress)❌
- Shared login update across multiple devices on the same subnet (work in progress) ❌
- (ESP32 only) Ability to login to multiple WiFi access points
- Hotspot, WiFi ✅
- (ESP8266 only) NAT extender✅
- For ESP32, Bluetooth configuration ✅
- Extendable config pages with easy to use form building objects
- Class based for ease of integration and use ✅
- Easy to brand by adding your own logo image and favicon ✅
- Help/About page supported and loaded from SPIFFS ✅
Arduino provides an easy path to OTA but its on constantly making it a security risk and it does not offer an easy to use file uploader
Some of the existing config systems use EEPROM emulation on ESP devices which does not incorporate wear leveling leading to relatively low write count and reliability issues
None of the config systems I have found offer an easy to use time setting function with NTP support
None seem to offer even the most basic login security
This work is FOSS under the Mozilla license.
https://github.com/peterjazenga/ESPconfig
Built against time library from https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/Time or http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/Time version 1.5.0