ESP32 – Creatronix

Create TG bot

Now you can search for your bot’s name and send a message Continue reading “Telegram Bot with MicroPython”

When you are familiar with python os and platform package You may wonder how to use it on ESP32 in MicroPython. Because this doesn’t work:

>>> os.name
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'name'

>>> import platform
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'platform'

Open Preferences and add

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_index.json

to additional boards manager URLs:

In Fire Beetle ESP 32 Project I wrote about connecting the FireBeetle ESP32 with the Arduino IDE and writing a little C-style program. Another interesting approach is to use MicroPython. Continue reading “Using MicroPython on FireBeetle ESP32”

Out of curiosity I bought a ESP32 board to tinker with, but for almost half a year hadn’t got an idea what to do with it… But then!

The idea: Every time I get mail into my physical snail mail mailbox, the mailbox shall send a message via Telegram to my smartphone:

But with many ideas the execution can become time consuming. Well, let’s see 🙂