Lobaro-CoAP on ESP8266

Page Summary

This page is an introduction running our CoAP (“Constrained Application Protocol”) software-stack “lobaro-coap” on the popular  ESP8266 wifi chip, which is sold for under 3€ per piece.

The target audience is embedded programmers with knowledge of the “C” programming language and the ESP8266 IoT SDK.

GitHub Repository

Quick Facts

  • Runs natively on ESP8266 SOC
  • uses only one UDP socket
  • Easy addition of new resources
  • Eclipse IDE project
  • over the air wifi config
  • Source available at GitHub

Key Terms

  • ESP8266
  • lobaro-coap
  • UDP socket
  • Eclipse
  • ESP8266 IoT SDK
  • open source (MIT)