A small 7 segment display clock that uses NTP servers to synchronise it's time all build around the ESP8266
Before you can build this project. You will first need to have setup the toolchain required to compile code for the ESP8266. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the documentation for the ESP8266 RTOS SDK.
After you have configured the toolchain, you will then need to download the ESP8266 RTOS SDK made by Espressif. Instructions for how to do this can be found in the Get ESP8266_RTOS_SDK section of the SDK documentation.
In order to successfully flash the compiled binary to the ESP8266, you
may need to set two environment variables, ESPPORT which is the path
to the device the ESP8266 is listening on, for example /dev/ttyUSB0,
and ESPBAUD. ESPBAUD should normally be set to 115200 for
programming.
This project also depends upon CMake and Make. These should be installed on your system.
First create the build directory and change into it.
mkdir build
cd build
Now configure the build system
cmake ..
First we compile the firmware.
make
And then we can flash it to the board.
make flash
The firmware should now be present on the board.
Debug statments are output on UART by the SDK. To view these, simply use
your favourite serial port terminal to connect to your ESP8266 at a baud
rate of 74880. Because of this weird baudrate, I use
tio to connect as it supports setting non
standard baud rates, unlike some other software.
This repo uses the REUSE standard in order to
communicate the correct licence for the file. For those unfamiliar with
the standard the licence for each file can be found in one of three
places. The licence will either be in a comment block at the top of the
file, in a .license file with the same name as the file, or in the
dep5 file located in the .reuse directory. If you are unsure of the
licencing terms please contact
mnickson@sidingsmedia.com.
All files committed to this repo must contain valid licencing
information or the pull request can not be accepted.