ESP8266 T5 ‘Black Board’

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AI-Thinker has a dev board which contains a relay, buzzer, a temperature/humidity sensor and a number of different color LEDs, the intention apparently being to provide simple device to start playing with IOT.

However the ‘brains’ of the board is not the ESP-8266 on the board, but is in fact a  STC15L2K32S2 microcontroller which unfortunately is what the relay, buzzer, sensor and LEDs are connected to.

However, you can still make use of the ESP-8266 by isolating it from the STC chip.

Accessing the ESP-8266

The ESP-8266 on this board appears to be preprogrammed with the standard ESP-8266 AT command set to interact with the STC chip like a WIFI modem.

Set your serial terminal program to 115200 baud rate and carriage return, line feed both on.

Disconnect the jumpers from WIFI_TX, WIFI_RX.

Connect the serial cable’s Rx lead to the left pin of the pair of pins marked WIFI_RX,  the Gnd lead to the WIFI_GND pin and the Tx lead to the left pin of the pair of pins marked WIFI_TX. Enter the following in your serial terminal program to stop the annoying beeping:

WIFI GOT IP

Connect the serial cable’s Rx lead to the right pin of the pair of pins marked WIFI_TX,  the Gnd lead to the WIFI_GND pin and the Tx lead to the right pin of the pair of pins marked WIFI_RX. Enter  AT+GMR in the terminal and the ESP-8266 should respond with something like:

AT version:0.25.0.0(Jun 5 2015 16:27:16)
SDK version:1.1.1
Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd.
Jun 23 2015 23:23:50

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