SWswah·Apr 10, 2017
I've been using https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos. Who exactly is the target audience for PlatformIO?
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esp-open-rtos
Open source FreeRTOS-based ESP8266 software framework
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| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesFrom what I understand, you can use them already with AWS IoT but I'm not sure if this solution is ideal or secure enough. Haven't used it personally but it's there:
https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos/blob/master/exam...
In BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLSI was playing around with them until I realised they're incapable of being secure.
They only have enough ram for one, maybe two TLS sessions at once; to make things worse, no one has written support for modern (secure) ciphers. The SSL stacks that come with the Espressif SDK are vulnerable to almost every attack you've probably heard of. Slightly better (but not fixed) is https://github.com/superhouse/esp-open-rtos.
I could no longer rationalise being party to the propagation of the "internet of insecure things". Instead, spend the extra $7 and use something with a bit more power, like a C.H.I.P. http://getchip.com then you can write normal programs (it's a full linux OS) and not be limited to only insecure protocols.
In Warwalking WiFi Networks with ESP8266 IoT ModuleIf you're looking for improved TLS support, have a peek at esp-open-rtos[1], which is a re-implementation of the Espressif provided rtos sdk and is aiming to be fully open source.
It ships with the mbed TLS implementation, which supports TLS 1.2.
[1] https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos
In ESP8266: A $5 microcontroller with wi-fi that runs PythonIt can run FreeRTOS, the Espressif SDK has an example and there's even a nice open source project around it too: https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos
In Show HN: Micro web framework for low-resource systems – live example on ESP8266