I am trying to send several measurements (ints, floats) over wifi to another computer on the network, using the ESP8266 Thing Dev board. I can use a simple website hosted by the ESP to display the values as text, then pull that and parse it on a server, however I need to keep the ESP in deep sleep most of the time, only waking for a moment to measure and toss out some values.
At first I thought I could have the server poll the IP address of the ESP many times a second, catching and parsing the website when the ESP throws it up, but that is impractical. Does anyone know a better way that the ESP can quickly throw some data to a ready-and-waiting server?
Maybe send some packets to a port on the server? Is there a library out there anyone recommends for this? I don’t want to have to bit-bang the network stack :?