Internet of Things with ESP8266

Connecting your module to your Wi-Fi network

Now, we are going to check whether the ESP8266 and the Arduino IDE are working correctly, and connect your chip to your local Wi-Fi network.

To do so, let's perform the following steps:

1. First, we need to write the code and then upload it to the board. The code is simple; we just want to connect to the local Wi-Fi network and print the IP address of the board. This is the code to connect to the network:

   // Import required libraries #include <ESP8266WiFi.h> // WiFi parameters constchar* ssid = "your_wifi_name"; constchar* password = "your_wifi_password"; void setup(void) { // Start Serial Serial.begin(115200); // Connect to WiFi WiFi.begin(ssid, password); while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) { delay(500);
Serial.print("."); ...