Static IP Possibility

[yeyeto2788]

Hello all,

I'm building a Temperature and Humidity server that I want to monitor from work but I'm not able to set a static or fixed IP.

Is there a possibility to set Fixed IP on MicroPython for ESP8266? I have found some info but only for the WiPy.

Ohh I almost forgot, I'm running Version 1.8.3

Thanks!

[deshipu]

What did you try already and how it didn't work?

[deshipu]

Looking at the code, you should be able to set the address with network.ifconfig, passing it a tuple of four values: the address, the network mask, the gateway address and the dns server address.

[yeyeto2788]

[quote="deshipu"]Looking at the code, you should be able to set the address with network.ifconfig, passing it a tuple of four values: the address, the network mask, the gateway address and the dns server address.[/quote]

You meant something like this:
[code]network.ifconfig ('192.168.1.30', '255.255.255.0', '10.1.1.7', '8.8.8.8')[/code]

[deshipu]

Well, the gateway IP usually has to be in the same subnetwork as your normal IP for it to function properly. Otherwise, how it didn't work?

[yeyeto2788]

Hello, sorry for the late reply

Well, the gateway IP usually has to be in the same subnetwork as your normal IP for it to function properly. Otherwise, how it didn't work?

This is my code to setup the Static IP but it seems not to be working

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import network
sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
sta_if.active(True)
sta_if.ifconfig('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','255.255.255.0','192.168.1.1','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')
sta_if.connect('SSID','Password')

This is the error I get when I input the data

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 9, in <module>
TypeError: function expected at most 2 arguments, got 5

It seems to be expecting a str instead of a tuple or a list.

[Roberthh]

You have to put the parameters in a tuple:

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sta_if.ifconfig(('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','255.255.255.0','192.168.1.1','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'))

Like shown in the docs.

[yeyeto2788]

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import network
sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
sta_if.active(True)
sta_if.ifconfig(('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','255.255.255.0','192.168.1.1','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'))
sta_if.connect('SSID','Password')

It actually worked!!! I re-read the documentation http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/e ... twork.html and it works

The problem was that I had to do it this way:

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network.ifconfig(('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','255.255.255.0','192.168.1.1','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'))

Note the double parenthesis on the code.

Why is this? maybe is a silly question but I don't get it.

[fdufnews]

As said in the documentation,

To set the above values, pass a 4-tuple with the required information.

So

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('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx','255.255.255.0','192.168.1.1','xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')

is a 4-tuple.
Maybe you should look here http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_tuples.htm

[pythoncoder]

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a = (1,2,3)

creates a 3-tuple (a tuple with 3 elements). If we have a function which expects a 3-tuple as an argument we can call it with either of:

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func(a)
func((6,7,8))