Imagine you are selling 10 different devices (all things with an atmega chip). These things can be configured by users by several methods.
One of these methods would be a WiFI dongle like apparatus.
Why? those ESP chips are cheap so you don't have to charge users lots of money for your configurator thingy. And if you buy them on a board like a wemos D1, you don't have any labour to do as you can just buy, program and resell and in worst case scenario, solder the headers.
So I was thinking to implement a wemos D1 socket on all my 10 devices so you can plug your configurator tool on your device and configure it.
I figured that the wemos should be programmed to be an Acces Point and host a webserver. This would allow users to use their smartphones or whatever WiFi thing to configure your things via any webbrowser.
The devices could inform the wemos D1 via serial communication what kind of device it is. This would allow the wemos to host the correct web page and send serial instructions back with configuration info.
I am a complete newb when it comes to webpage and internet things. I did do some minimalistic Wifi things with wemos D1s but not much.
One way I could think off, is to simply type html code. (which I need to learn first) and get the job done like that.
But like I said. I am not really into this stuff so I am curious to if my approach is A). viable, B). if it is smart to do it like this. C). What other (easy) ways to create webbrowsers can on use on a wemos D1 and can this coexist with the serial communication I planned to implement?
What would you do?
Kind regards,
Bas