Comments on: MicroPython IDEs for ESP32 and ESP8266

By: James B

James B — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:52:02 +0000

In reply to Sara Santos. Thonny also seems very lightweight in terms of laptop resources. Not a huge IDE like some others

By: James B

James B — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:50:09 +0000

In reply to Kurt Hennig. Thonny is also what i am using on Ubuntu 20.04 It seems mostly intuitive without that steep learning curve.

By: JC`zic

JC`zic — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:43:14 +0000

Hi all, I also offer a small graphical IDE with tools suite, ESP32 MPY-Jama, that does many other things for ESP32 in MicroPython. It's open-source and available here : --> https://github.com/jczic/ESP32-MPY-Jama Quick installs with app/setup for MacOS/Windows and source installation for Linux. Try it and let me know!

By: Jeff in Texas

Jeff in Texas — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:45:15 +0000

As always, I found this interesting and maybe a bit helpful as well. But I need to add some data points for Mac users.
I was unable to get uPyCraft to work on MacOS 10.14.6. When it starts, it tells me there is a new version, tries to download it and fails, saying “Download false”. Also, their website does not have a download link for the Mac version – it says there is, but it is not a link. Google found V1 for me and it runs, but it’s not really a good choice for me.
Thonny is great for Mac, and Mu is exactly as you detailed (can’t restart the device, etc.).
PyCharm seems to have the most promise – especially because I learned from you that there is a Micropython plugin. I’ve used it for Python projects and now I’ll give it a shot for Micropython. I’m not really a beginner and the UI really appeals to me.
Please keep up the great work.

By: John E Bowen

John E Bowen — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:50:04 +0000

Thanks, Sara, for these concise and thoughtful mini-reviews. One thing I should mention right away is that my host machine is a Raspberry Pi 4. This plays havoc with me trying to search the Internet or Youtube for “python IDE raspberry micropython wemos d1” as I get tons of results thinking I want to run Python on my Pi 4. So it’s been hilarious, as you can imagine. Thank you again for your article!

I’ve just started with Micropython, and I’m using Thonny because for some time now it comes preinstalled with Raspberry Pi OS. I was able to flash Micropython onto a Pi Pico. It (Thonny, the menu in lower right corner of the IDE) didn’t recognize the Pico at first. This was quite possibly due to me having so many USB devices plugged into my powered hub, plus a bazillion tabs open in Chromium browser. When I restarted the Raspberry Pi, then opened Thonny, the Pi Pico appeared right way. It’s quite enjoyable.

So now I’m thinking I should try a similar setup with my Wemos D1 Mini (clones, probably). I do understand the D1 has less available memory, but on the other hand, I’m running very small, simple scripts so far. I hope to follow your series, and see how it goes.

I’ll stick with Thonny for now, since again, my host machine is only a Pi 4. I did open Synaptic Package Manager is searched for uPycraft, but it is not available, at least not in the standard way.

Cheers!

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:02:08 +0000

In reply to osman.

Hi.
We have some tutorials about sending data to MySQL database (but not with micropython).
Check them here: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/?s=mysql
Regards,
Sara

By: osman

osman — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 14:46:59 +0000

Hello Sarah. Is it possible to use ESP8266 to send data to mysql on both web server and remote server?
What I want to do is publish the sensor data on the index.html page on a local ip such as 192.168.1.200 in esp8266 and save it to mysql on a remote computer. I will be glad if you help me. Thanks.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:44:31 +0000

i use VS Code (insider version) over years on my Mac for developing Python and C++ code.
Im interesting in MicroPython. Unfortunately, to use PyMakr extension, nodejs is needed too. Strange – why do i need Javascript libraries to work with python? However, its a good idea to mention that.

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 12:14:01 +0000

In reply to till.

Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t know about that one.
Regards,
Sara

By: till

till — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 07:37:47 +0000