{"id":6933,"date":"2017-05-20T23:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2017-05-20T23:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:45:34","slug":"esp8266-for-led-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6933","title":{"rendered":"ESP8266 for LED strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised but this came in the mail today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6934\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6934\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a bit of research before I purchased it, I purchased it because it had an ESP8266 and was relatively mod friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The Serial ports are clearly labeled and people have already written alternate firmware for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6935\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-inside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-inside.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-inside-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-inside-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are what the GPIO ports map to<\/p>\n<p>const byte redpin=12;<br \/>\nconst byte greenpin=15;<br \/>\nconst byte bluepin=13;<br \/>\nconst byte white1pin=14;<br \/>\nconst byte white2pin=4;<br \/>\nconst byte greenledpin=5;<br \/>\nconst byte redledpin=1;<\/p>\n<p>Should be easy to code my own stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing thing is that these units are $11 with shipping on ebay<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6936\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-ebay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-ebay.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-ebay-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/H801-Wifi-ebay-768x731.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also want to note I am so proud of my kids today, my youngest is actually authoring videos on his own. \u00a0One of my daughter&#8217;s fixed our digital SLR camera without my help and another daughter figured out the sewing machine on her own. \u00a0My oldest has exceeded my academic skills.<\/p>\n<p>They are becoming self sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised but this came in the mail today I did a bit of research before I purchased it, I purchased it because it had an ESP8266 and was relatively mod friendly. The Serial ports are clearly labeled and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6933\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}