Alan's BasicWebServer Sketch
updated Jul19




I find that when creating pretty much any new project with an ESP8266 or ESP32 I use this sketch as a starting point, so I have published it here in case it is of any use/interest to anyone else (I also hope that people will offer improvements/suggestions as I am not a professional programmer by any stretch of the imagination).  It is not all my own work, just something I have put together for my own use from many sources.

It is the easiest way I have found to serve web pages with control buttons, updating information, a log of activity and a clock (using NTP)
This are the web pages this sketch creates:

Main page

log page




You can download the sketch from HERE, it works on both ESP8266 and ESP32

The sketch as it is will first create a wifi access point named "ESPconfig", you need to connect to this with the password "password" and you will then be able to enter your wifi network details so it is then able to connect to it (it uses the WifiManager library to do this which is included in the above file).  Once connected to your network you should be able to view a similar web page to the image above (you will need to find out what ip address it is using from your router or by viewing the terminal window in the Arduino IDE).

If you look in the procedure "handleRoot", the lower part is where it creates any control buttons and the top part is where it performs any actions when the buttons are pressed.  Any information you want to update (e.g. sensor status) are put in the procedure "data" as this is then automatically updated every few seconds (not the ideal way to do this but I think the simplest).

You can then add your own code to the "loop" section to perform whatever tasks you wish...



You can contact me on - alanesq@disroot.org

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