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Programming ESP8266 ESP-12E NodeMCU using Arduino IDE - A tutorial

by TheElectromania on February 13, 2016

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Programming ESP8266 ESP-12E NodeMCU using Arduino IDE - A tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Intro: Programming ESP8266 ESP-12E NodeMCU using Arduino IDE - A tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 1: NodeMCU ESP-12E Pin mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 2: Installing Arduino core for NodeMCU ESP-12E using Arduino Boards Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Step 3: Insert link for .json NodeMCU package files into Arduino IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Step 4: Tools - Boards manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Step 5: Selecting NodeMCU board in Arduino IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Step 6: LED blink - connections for external LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Step 7: LED Blink - Example sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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 Author:TheElectromania Electromania
A Researcher, an Engineer and an electronics enthusiast

Intro: Programming ESP8266 ESP-12E NodeMCU using Arduino IDE - A tutorial

NodeMCU Dev Board is based on widely explored esp8266 System on Chip from Expressif. It combined features of WIFI accesspoint and station + microcontroller and
uses simple LUA based programming language. ESP8266 NodeMCU offers-

--Arduino-like hardware IO

--Event-driven API for network applicaitons

--10 GPIOs D0-D10, PWM functionality, IIC and SPI communicaiton, 1-Wire and ADC A0 etc. all in one board

--Wifi networking (can be uses as access point and/or station, host a webserver), connect to internet to fetch or upload data.

--excellent few $ system on board for Internet of Things (IoT) projects.

Recently, there has been interest in programming ESP8266 systems using Arduino IDE. Programming, of ESP8266 using Arduino IDE is not very straight forward, until it
is properly configured. Especially because, the Input and output pins have different mapping on NodeMCU than those on actual ESP8266 chip.

I had request about showing how to program ESP-12E NodeMCU using Arduino IDE. I struggled myself earlier in the beginning, so thought of making this Instructable for
beginners. This is quick guide/tutorial for getting started with Arduino and ESP8266 NodeMCU V2 ESP-12Ewifi module. (I think, this method can be used for other
NodeMCU boards too. (or only ESP8266 boards, but with necessary hardware modifications and using FTDI modules for programming- not covered in this tutorial
because, this is only for NodeMCU dev boards).

This Instructable gives quick intro to-

1) Installing Arduino core for ESP8266 WiFi chip in Arduino IDE and Getting started with sketches written using Latest stable Arduino IDE 1.6.7

2) Run/modify basic LED blink sketch to blink onboard LED and/or externally connected LED at pin D0 or GPIO-16 as per the pin configuration mentioned here and here.

NOTE- To use NodeMCU V1 or V2 or V3 dev boards using Arduino IDE, we do not need to flash it with firmware using nodemcu flasher. It is required only if we intend to
program NodeMCU using Lua script with esplorer etc.

I have other video published on getting started with NodeMCU and flashing NodeMCU firmware on following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7GzK7zHKOk

**Arduino logo and NodeMCU logo are their respective trademarks- logos shown in above image were taken from -https://github.com/nodemcu and
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Step 1: NodeMCU ESP-12E Pin mapping

First and foremost word of - CAUTION !

* The ESP8266 chip requires 3.3V power supply voltage. It should not be powered with 5 volts like other arduino boards.

* NodeMCU ESP-12E dev board can be connected to 5Vusing micro USB connector or Vin pin available on board.

* The I/O pins of ESP8266 communicate or input/output max 3.3V only. i.e. the pins are NOT 5V tolerant inputs.

In case you have to interface with 5V I/O pins, you need to use level conversion system (either built yourself using resistor voltage divider or using ready to use level
converters (e.g. these ones adafruit or aliexpress etc.).

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The pin mapping of NodeMCU dev board are different from those of ESP8266 GPIOs. Attached images gives mapping of pins, source of images.

More information about pins is available on following links:

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* Github - NodeMCU

* Github-esp8266/Arduino

Step 2: Installing Arduino core for NodeMCU ESP-12E using Arduino Boards Manager
As shown in the image, Copy the .json link with latest stable release of NodeMCU package from Github page here.

The link should look something like this-

http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json

Step 3: Insert link for .json NodeMCU package files into Arduino IDE
Paste the copied link and insert it in Arduino IDE using following sequence-

File menu - Preferences-

Paste copied link into the area shown in black box in above image. Close and restart the Arduino IDE.

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Step 4: Tools - Boards manager
Tools - Boards managerand search for ESP8266 and install the libraries/files given under heading ESP8266 by ESP community.

Restart the Arduino IDE once again.

Step 5: Selecting NodeMCU board in Arduino IDE

Go to Tools - Boards (scroll down the list of boards) - Select NodeMCU 1.0 ( ESP-12EModule).

Select the Port number at which you have connected nodeMCU. Rest of the settings can be left to default values.

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Step 6: LED blink - connections for external LED
We will be connecting external LED directly to GPIO16 or D0 pin of NodeMCU (no need of external current limiting resistor). This is the pin number for onboard LED or
BUILTIN_LED (in my case it is blue LED - some boards might have green or red LED).

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Step 7: LED Blink - Example sketch
Go to File - Examples - ESP8266 - Blink

In my video, I have modified the sketch to blink LED faster, but you can leave as it is and just upload the sketch to ESP and there you go... the On-board LED blue and
external LED red starts blinking alternately at every second.

Congratulations for successful configuration of Arduino IDE for ESP8266 NodeMCU dev boards.

Note- In case, if Arduino IDE version 1.6.7 fails to work for you, try to go back to arduino 1.6.5 or backwards. (I have heard, some NodeMCU boards have issues with
latest versions of Arduino IDEs and going to earlier versions of Arduino IDE solves the problems).

Good luck for fun with this amazing system on board.....

Helpful links-

https://github.com/esp8266

https://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki/wiki

https://github.com/esp8266

http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html

https://nodemcu.readthedocs.org/en/dev/

My Doit NodeMcu Lua ESP8266 ESP-12E WIFI Development Board was from Banggood.com

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