Getting Started with ESP32 Wireless Networking in C | Wirelessly Enable Any Project with ESP32

The ESP32 by Espressif is an extremely powerful development board. You can use it to give the power of Wifi and Bluetooth to any IOT project you're working on, with zero hassle.

In this video, we explore how to setup the Espressif IOT Development Framework, or IDF, and use it to write C code to connect the ESP32 to a Wireless Network. Once the device is connected, we are able to connect the ESP32 to a TCP server and retrieve data from that server.

The ESP32 IDF uses FreeRTOS, an open source real time operating system that is used on smaller embedded boards. FreeRTOS allows you to make tasks for different features on your board. Pairing this with the IDF allows you to write powerful Wifi programs to the ESP32.

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[r_be]

"but we don't do that here... we are writing this in C" - it is at this point I knew I have to like and subscribe this! :)

[fotonical]

This channel such a breath of fresh air, for many years there such a scarcity of high value embedded knowledge, glad see tide is changing. keep it up champ!

[adanpantoja]

Finally a video showing how to do something with the ESP32 that ISN'T Arduino! Thank you!

[Otakutaru]

ESP32 is just the perfect balance between accesibility and performant low level. Also, built in FreeRTOS with the IDF is just perfect

[picklerix]

I modified and built one of the ESP32 MQTT examples and I was shocked that I was able to login to my WiFi and connect to the MQTT broker software successfully.
I also tried one of the ESPNOW examples and I was able to get two ESP32 devices to talk to each other. I am pretty impressed with the ESP32 sample code.

[bitcoinpaymentmodule]

Thank you for making this video! I am so glad I found your channel! Great quality. I found you while trying to learn to control a MG995 servo with ESP 8266 & 32. Didn't find that but found soooo much more 🙂

[jmsiener]

Thanks for the ESP32 content. I tried to use the ESP-IDF a year or so back and getting the hang of how to use it properly was just overwhelming-went back to Arduino. Demystifying all the esp_err_t things would be great but I’m also a relative idiot in these regards.

[ataadevs]

Omg man, you're gold. I just subscribed and start watching and pressing like on every video of yours. Keep it coming please

[Tobmei]

Dont't know if it was on purpose, but I almost did not click the video becaude of the arduino logo. Not because I hate it but because I am intrested in learning esp-idf toolchain. So you might think about that.

Great video! Your really help me getting into embedded :)

[ignaciodelvalle]

I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with this video and the other ESP32 installation video from you, and the hours I spend in front of my PC. Very well explained. Muchas Gracias.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Javich]

"But we don't do that here". That got you a new subscriber

[AdamS-lomr]

i watched this 3 times and it still going way over my head. maybe im just dumb.

[Otakutaru]

Your videos are top notch. Considering some merch... but would like something more discrete, like a small chip design or something

[ishansheth]

this video is a great help. Are you thinking of making a video for LCD display with ESP32? That would be awesome

[davewuqio]

thank you for the video, it made the code so much more digestible for me

[TrevorV]

I would love to see this in Rust. I've never used Rust but I've watched your latest two Rust videos and am strongly considering learning it. You got a sub from me!

[benjaminmodica]

A video like this for the pi pico would be awesome! The example projects for tcp are very hard to understand.

[ccflan]

First to watch and comment 👌 this is very informative thank you, so from now on I'll prefer using the C way instead of arduino,

[ericbwertz]

I'm from 20+ months in the future and your promise to do a video about ESP32 peripherals was a lie. Time travelers are embarrassing, aren't they?

[grebz]

Thank you for making this video, it was so useful - I was struggling with the example until I found this. The next step would be to make the wifi startup code non-blocking and create a task to monitor when the wifi becomes available. I'm going to see if I can work out how to do this, but would love to find a video on it (hint hint) :P Thanks again, off to the races now...