ESP-01 + UNO won't detect gateway

I've had some progress in my researches towards this problem.

In fact, Arduino gets the correct gateway address from my DHCP server, but displays the wrong one. There must be a bug somewhere in WiFiEsp library somewhere.

To debug this, I made a few changes to the following files:

• WiFiEsp-Master/src/WiFiEsp.h

void config(IPAddress local_ip, IPAddress gateway);
void config(IPAddress local_ip, IPAddress gateway, IPAddress subnetMask);

• WiFiEsp-Master/src/WiFiEsp.c

void WiFiEspClass::config(IPAddress ip, IPAddress gateway)
{
  EspDrv::config(ip, gateway);
}
void WiFiEspClass::config(IPAddress ip, IPAddress gateway, IPAddress subnetMask)
{
  EspDrv::config(ip, gateway, subnetMask);
}

• WiFiEsp-Master/src/utility/EspDrv.h

static void config(IPAddress local_ip, IPAddress gateway);
static void config(IPAddress local_ip, IPAddress gateway, IPAddress subnetMask);

• WiFiEsp-Master/src/utility/EspDrv.cpp

void EspDrv::config(IPAddress ip, IPAddress gateway) {
  LOGDEBUG(F("> config"));

  // disable station DHCP
  sendCmd(F("AT+CWDHCP_CUR=1,0"));

  // it seems we need to wait here...
  delay(500);

  char buf_ip[16];
  sprintf_P(buf_ip, PSTR("%d.%d.%d.%d"), ip[0], ip[1], ip[2], ip[3]);

  char buf_gateway[16];
  sprintf_P(buf_gateway, PSTR("%d.%d.%d.%d"), gateway[0], gateway[1], gateway[2], gateway[3]);

  int ret = sendCmd(F("AT+CIPSTA_CUR="%s","%s""), 2000, buf_ip, buf_gateway);
  delay(500);

  if (ret==TAG_OK)
  {
    LOGINFO1(F("IP and gateway addresses set"), buf_ip);
  }
}

void EspDrv::config(IPAddress ip, IPAddress gateway, IPAddress subnet)
{

  LOGDEBUG(F("> config"));

  // disable station DHCP
  sendCmd(F("AT+CWDHCP_CUR=1,0"));

  // it seems we need to wait here...
  delay(500);

  char buf_ip[16];
  sprintf_P(buf_ip, PSTR("%d.%d.%d.%d"), ip[0], ip[1], ip[2], ip[3]);

  char buf_gateway[16];
  sprintf_P(buf_gateway, PSTR("%d.%d.%d.%d"), gateway[0], gateway[1], gateway[2], gateway[3]);

  char buf_subnet[16];
  sprintf_P(buf_subnet, PSTR("%d.%d.%d.%d"), subnet[0], subnet[1], subnet[2], subnet[3]);

  int ret = sendCmd(F("AT+CIPSTA_CUR="%s","%s","%s""), 4000, buf_ip, buf_gateway, buf_subnet);
  delay(500);

  if (ret==TAG_OK)
  {
    LOGINFO1(F("IP, gateway and subnet mask addresses set"), buf_ip);
  }
}

These few changes should be enough to implement fix IP address and specify manual address for gateway and subnet mask (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

But after doing this, I realized the gateway continued to be "192.168.1.0". Then I added this piece o code to the function EspDrv::readUntil, inside EspDrv.cpp:"

        ringBuf.push(c); // this line was already there
        Serial.print(c);

This way, I could see exactly all responses for the AT commands sent by WiFiEsp library. When asked, the results were:

+CIPSTA:ip:"192.168.1.60"
+CIPSTA:gateway:"192.168.1.36"
+CIPSTA:netmask:"255.255.255.0"

Then I realized the problem wasn't the gateway, but the DNS. If the library sends command "AT+CIPSTART=3,"TCP","www.google.com",80", the result was:

Not connected

busy p...

And, if increased the timeout value to 15000 instead of 5000, the result was:

DNS ERROR

Now my problem is partially solved. I can connect to an external server if I use an IP address, but I can't set a domain name because it won't be resolved by the DNS.

Apparently the firmware version of my ESP-01 won't accept "AT+CDNSCFG=?" required to set/retrive DNS address. I tried to set 8.8.8.8 as the DNS, but the result was "NOT OK".

I will stick to this "solution" for now, but would be glad to hear any comment about what I described here and a more final solution.

Thanks.

Using a static IP address with a gateway is not implemented (as you can see from the source code).

To get out to the internet with that library you can only use DHCP (by omitting the WiFi.config(localIp) call).