Software Development

Trials and Tribulations using Deep Sleep on an ESP8266

This is a focused topic and is not really meant to be a tutorial for a new beginner. I won’t be boring you with how to install the Arduino IDE and ESP8266 Boards Library or even why you might want to use Deep Sleep. If you’re here, you probably already know these things. This is …

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InqPortal 5.2.2 – Multiple-Clients Talking to Multiple-Servers

The InqPortal IoT / App / Web server version 5.2.2 is now available in the Arduino IDE Library Manager. Here are the new features and what you can expect from them. Multi-Server All web-servers, InqPortal included, are geared to service multiple clients. Now, the InqPortal client library supports connecting to multiple servers. The servers do not have …

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InqPortal – The Three Line Promise

The goal of this library has always been to make other project developers job’s easier. Working with students of all ages from pre-teens to senior citizens, I’ve found, almost without exception, all are keenly interested in getting their hardware projects up and running as quick as possible. The excitement factor of seeing their own hardware …

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InqPortal 5.2 Rocket Sockets

The InqPortal IoT / App / Web server version 5.2.0 is now available in the Arduino IDE Library Manager. Here are the new features and what you can expect from them. Way-High WebSocket Throughput Testing – We do extensive (shall we say abusive) testing. These edge cases, these Fringe events are to push Inqportal beyond …

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InqPortal 5.0 IoT Server Library Released – Catch It Now

InqPortal is an Arduino IDE based library to create your own IoT, Web, Application Server. It supports the Espressif ESP8266 line of processor boards including: NodeMCU, Wemos, ESP-01, ESP-07 and all other flavors of the ESP-12x It is the quickest way to get your Arduino Sketch based project, up on your local network, ready to …

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Arduino IDE Configuration v7

Installing the Arduino IDE There are many (nah… many millions of) hits for Arduino installation tutorials. This post is meant to be concise and assumes you have used installation software on your computer. It provides the links and the steps to install the Arduino IDE, add ESP8266 support, and finally to add InqPortal support. I …

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