We can connect to the access point with wifi.sta.config and wifi.sta.connect - it will take a second or two to complete

the connection, you can query the module to ask the status with wifi.sta.status() - when you get a 5 it means the

connection is completed and DHCP successful

WebClient example

Once you're got the IP address you can connect to adafruit, for example, and read a webpage and print it out:

You can also have the module do DNS for you, just give it the hostname instead of IP address:

This is just a light overview of testing out your HUZZAH ESP breakout! For much more, check out NodeMCU's

documentation page https://nodemcu.readthedocs.io/ for the details on what functions are available to you, as well as

http://www.lua.org to learn more about the Lua scripting language

-- print ap list

function listap(t)

for ssid,v in pairs(t) do

authmode, rssi, bssid, channel = string.match(v, "(%d),(-?%d+),(%x%x:%x%x:%x%x:%x%x:%x%x:%x%x),(%d+)"

print(ssid,authmode,rssi,bssid,channel)

end

end

wifi.sta.getap(listap)

wifi.sta.config("accesspointname","yourpassword")

wifi.sta.connect()

tmr.delay(1000000)

-- wait 1,000,000 us = 1 second

print(wifi.sta.status())

print(wifi.sta.getip())

sk=net.createConnection(net.TCP, 0)

sk:on("receive", function(sck, c) print(c) end )

sk:connect(80,"207.58.139.247")

sk:send("GET /testwifi/index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.adafruit.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n"

sk=net.createConnection(net.TCP, 0)

sk:on("receive", function(sck, c) print(c) end )

sk:connect(80,"www.adafruit.com")

sk:send("GET /testwifi/index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.adafruit.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n"

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