Hi Forum.
I have a project working for opening and closing the windows in my greenhouse, it is controlling windows based on Temperature, Rain and Humidity, i was struggling with noise but that seems to be fixed, so now i would like to go to the next step which is to get it online, my idea is to get it connected to wifi so i can log data on RPI and send commands to arduino.
my idea is to log the data to a SQL database and somehow get it published on a homepage on the RPI.
my question is how do i get the Mega 2560 on WIFI without too much hazzle (don't want to spend 6 months on google to find out how to hack some doubtfull module) .
looking online there is many ways to go, mostly i find the ESP8266 but many versions of that one.
I found that i need to reduce TX from Arduino to 3.3V not to cause damage to ESP8266, a tutorial shoved that it could be done with 2 resistors 10K inline and 20K to ground.
ESP8266-12 on a board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-x-ESP8266-Serial-WIFI-Module-For-Arduino-DIY-IoT-Model-Wireless-Transceiver-/262491095354?epid=1776946013&hash=item3d1db0413a:g:oBYAAOSw-4BXZ6E1
ESP8266-07 on a board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESP8266-Serial-Wifi-Transceiver-Board-Module-for-Arduino-ESP-07-V1-0-/162082552620?epid=622677877&hash=item25bcdf7b2c:g:Rw0AAOSwEH9ZZX6k
ESP8266-12 raw
ESP8266-01S on a board with an adapter
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESP-01S-ESP8266-Serial-Wi-Fi-Wireless-Module-ESP-01-Adapter-for-Arduino-/201711916394?epid=623941445&hash=item2ef6f7956a:g:4ZYAAOSwHMJYIHFW
NodeMCU Lua ESP8266 ESP-12 WeMos D1 Mini
hope somebody here can guide me in the right direction .
a little link or guide showing how to set it up so it acts togeter with the Mega 2560 would be verry helpfull i find a lot of examples on how to use ESP8266 as a stand alone unit.
Best Regards
Lillelund