a little wifi hotspot with a web server that could share content or apps where there is no internet connection, possible to be battery powered for hours (days?)
This allows for a small, battery-operated webserver to be stood up in places where there is no network connectivity. This could be used for event coordination, to provide social connectivity in areas with no WiFi (perhaps in demographic areas with limited Internet access), or to help provide communications in emergency or disaster situations.
This was tested against MicroPython firmware esp32-20190511-v1.10-338-gf812394c3.bin on a bootleg LOLIN32 board.
This uses jczic/MicroWebSrv
There is a primitive API to allow configuration changes or trigger a reboot without a serial / USB connection.
System stats are exposed via HTTP at /stats or /status.
webrepl.html is updated upon boot to default connecting to the correct IP address.
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If you have adafruit-ampy installed, you can just run './deploy.sh' assuming your device is on /dev/ttyUSB0.
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You can edit config.py or hit http://ip/config for a primitive configuration API (be careful!)
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If you don't want to run an access point, create a one-line "client.cfg" file in the format
ESSID:password. This can be toggled from the /config interface.
Mobile wifi devices should see an open wifi network and be prompted to sign in. The captive portal page will be served from /www
- esp8266 port - This should be possible to port to esp3266 by porting to use uasyncio instead of _threads.
- sdcard support - moar storage
- clean up /config API
- webapp content
- Interface with another device via GPIO for upstream connectivity or logging - post new content, access logs, etc. externally
- Mesh networking to allow for upstream connectivity / distributed ESP servers