This larger active team has allowed us to address most of the outstanding issues present at the first version of this FAQ.
In mid-2015, Zeroday decided to open the firmware development to a wider group of community developers, so the core group of developers now comprises 6 community developers (including this author), and we are also supported by another dozen or so active contributors, and two NodeMCU originators. The initial development of the firmware was done by Zeroday and a colleague, Vowstar, in-house with the firmware being first open-sourced on Github in late 2014. The NodeMCU company was set up by Zeroday to develop and to market a set of Lua firmware-based development boards which employ the Espressif ESP8266 SoC. What has changed since the first version of this FAQ? ΒΆ However, the scope of the firmware is far wider than this as it can be used on any ESP8266 module.
#ESP8266 FIRMWARE ALTERNATIVES HOW TO#
What this FAQ does is to answer some of the common questions that a competent Lua developer would ask in learning how to develop Lua applications for the ESP8266 based boards running the NodeMcu firmware. There are plenty of resources on the Internet for this, some of which are listed in Where to start. This FAQ does not aim to help you to learn to program or even how to program in Lua. This version as at April 2017 includes some significant rewrites. This FAQ was started by Terry Ellison as an unofficial FAQ in mid 2015. enduser setup / captive portal / WiFi manager.Techniques for Reducing RAM and SPIFFS footprint.What has changed since the first version of this FAQ?.