You're reading from Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 Automate your home or business with inexpensive Wi-Fi devices

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838641160

Length 474 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

ESP32

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Vedat Ozan Oner

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Using ESP32

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with ESP32 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Talking to the Earth – Sensors and Actuators

4. Chapter 3: Impressive Outputs with Displays

5. Chapter 4: A Deep Dive into the Advanced Features

6. Chapter 5: Practice – Multisensor for Your Room

7. Section 2: Local Network Communication

8. Chapter 6: A Good Old Friend – Wi-Fi

9. Chapter 7: Security First!

10. Chapter 8: I Can Speak BLE

11. Chapter 9: Practice – Making Your Home Smart

12. Section 3: Cloud Communication

13. Chapter 10: No Cloud, No IoT – Cloud Platforms and Services

14. Chapter 11: Connectivity Is Never Enough – Third-Party Integrations

15. Chapter 12: Practice – A Voice-Controlled Smart Fan

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Toolchain installation, programming, and debugging ESP32

There are several options for the development environment. Among them, I will use the PlatformIO IDE throughout the book, except for some examples where I have to use Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF) tools directly. PlatformIO supports many different platforms, architectures, and frameworks with modern development capabilities. It comes as an extension in VS Code, and so is very easy to install and configure with just a few clicks.

PlatformIO installation

Let's start with the installation. After launching VS Code, go to Extensions (Ctrl + Shift + X) and search for platformio in the marketplace. This appears at the first place in the match list. Click on the Install button, and that is it. In a few minutes, the installation completes and we have PlatformIO installed in the VS Code IDE, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.1 – PlatformIO installation

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