diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index be081b2..6683081 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ MIT License -Copyright (c) 2023 Techniccontroller +Copyright (c) 2023 Techniccontroller, Ranse Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f47ca57..80d121e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +# Important Note: +This project has been unofficially forked from https://github.com/techniccontroller/wordclock_esp8266 which was initially created by techniccontroller. Copyright and licensing is respected. + + # Wordclock 2.0 Wordclock 2.0 with ESP8266 and NTP time @@ -53,58 +57,6 @@ Please download all these libraries as ZIP from GitHub, and extract them in the - https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager - https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BusIO -folder structure should look like this: - -``` -MySketchbookLocation -│ -└───libraries -│ └───Adafruit-GFX-Library -│ └───Adafruit_NeoMatrix -│ └───Adafruit_NeoPixel -│ └───WiFiManager -│ └───Adafruit_BusIO -│ -└───wordclock_esp8266 - │ wordclock_esp8266.ino - │ (...) - | - └───data - │ index.html - | (...) - | - └───icons -``` - - -## Upload program to ESP8266 with Arduino IDE - -#### STEP1: Installation of Arduino IDE -First, the latest version of the Arduino IDE needs to be downloaded and installed from here. - -#### STEP2: Installation of ESP8266 Arduino Core -To program the ESP8266 with the Arduino IDE, you need to install the board information first in Arduino IDE. To do that follow the following instructions: - -- Start Arduino and open the File -> Preferences window. - -- Enter http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into the Additional Board Manager URLs field. You can add multiple URLs, separating them with commas. -![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36072504/169649790-1b85660e-8c7d-4dfe-a63a-5dfd9862a5de.png) - -- Open Boards Manager from Tools > Board menu and search for "esp8266". - -- Click the install button. - -- Don’t forget to select your ESP8266 board from Tools > Board menu after installation (e.g NodeMCU 1.0) -![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36072504/169649801-898c4819-9145-45c5-b65b-52f2689ab646.png) - -#### STEP3: Upload a program to ESP8266 - -- Open wordclock_esp8266.ino in Arduino IDE -- Connect ESP8266 board with Computer -- Select right serial Port in Tools -> Port -- Click on the upload button in the Arduino IDE to upload the program to the ESP8266 Module. -![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36072504/169649810-1fda75c2-5f4d-4d71-98fe-30985d82f7f5.png) - ## Remark about the WiFi setup