Ma, no wires!

Well, a couple of hacks later and I have something working, although the buffering is not really satisfying at all. I should move it into a JS flat string, but even then it's just waiting to overflow or to hit the out-of-memory wall.

Code is here https://github.com/tve/Espruino/commit/8­e480637e095f6fac0ee92f84eb67527ac24f4fa and in the prior commit (jsdevices.c).

If anyone wants to try it out:

• Use firmware http://s3.voneicken.com/espruino/espruin­o_1v84.tve_master_8e48063_esp8266.tgz
  
• After it connects to an access point, enable the telnet server: require("Telnet").setOptions({mode:"on"}­);
  
• Then pull-up the IDE and connect to port 23 of your esp8266
  
  

The console also works with the Linux build, but uses port 2323 (to avoid needing root privs). But you have to build that from sources yourself.

I now need to work on the "always available" part so it comes up automatically whenever there's a Wifi connection (if so configured).

BTW, Gordon, do you have an esp8266 to try these types of things out?