noahcroit / df-iotalarm-esp8266

Digital Focus's WiFi alarm gateway firmware with esp8266

df-iotalarm-esp8266

Digital Focus's WiFi alarm gateway firmware with esp8266. platformio with arduino-style coding is used.

Build & Upload firmware

Use platformio framework can be used to build and upload. by run these

pio run
pio run --target uploadfs
pio run --target upload

These commands will build the firmware. Then, upload the config JSON file to the file system of ESP8266 first with --target uploadfs. The last will be upload the firmware with '--target upload'.

Configuration

The configuration of IoT alarm can be customized with /data/config.json. List of param

• AP name when in WIFI reset mode
• MQTT topics
• NTP server
• OTA URL
• etc.

Test reading info from device

To read info, mosquitto MQTT client can be used to subscribe to data from IoT Alarm. Test MQTT broker can be broker.hivemq.com. It's recommended to use your own broker.

mosquitto_sub -h <MQTT broker URL> -t "iotalarm/info" -t "iotalarm/help" -t "iotalarm/security"
mosquitto_sub -h broker.hivemq.com -t "iotalarm/info" -t "iotalarm/help" -t "iotalarm/security"

OTA Server

For testing, python's HTTP server module can be used for the firmware hosting

cd /path/to/this/repo
python -m http.server 8000

Send upgrade request to the firmware host by publishing the MQTT to OTA topic with chip ID to start OTA process.

mosquitto_pub -h <MQTT broker URL> -t "iotalarm/ota" -m "<chip ID>"