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Internet of Things with ESP8266

You're reading from   Internet of Things with ESP8266 Build amazing Internet of Things projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468024
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the ESP8266 2. First Projects with the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 3. Cloud Data Logging with the ESP8266 4. Control Devices from Anywhere 5. Interacting With Web Services 6. Machine-to-Machine Communications 7. Sending Notifications from the ESP8266 8. Controlling a Door Lock from the Cloud 9. Building a Physical Bitcoin Ticker 10. Wireless Gardening with the ESP8266 11. Cloud-Based Home Automation System 12. Cloud-Controlled ESP8266 Robot 13. Building Your Own Cloud Platform to Control ESP8266 Devices Index

Testing the ticker


We are now going to configure the project, and we'll start by going into the details of the code for this project. Of course, you will find all the code for this book inside the GitHub repository for the book.

It starts by including the required libraries:

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include "SSD1306.h"

Then, we define on which pin the OLED screen is connected:

#define SDA 14
#define SCL 12
#define I2C 0x3D

We also need to create an instance of the LCD display:

SSD1306 display(I2C, SDA, SCL);

To grab the current price of Bitcoin, we need to use the Coindesk API. Therefore, we have to define the URL of the API in the code:

const char* host = "api.coindesk.com";

You also need to modify the code to set your Wi-Fi name and password:

const char* ssid     = "wifi-network";
const char* password = "wif-password";

In the setup() function of the sketch, we initialize the

display.init();
display.flipScreenVertically();
display.clear...
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