While testing around with ESP8266 I found some interesting things. Firat I am using the Arduino IDE amd I want this to me kind of outonomouse, maybe I will add a solar panel later, but my window is heading west so we will see.

I use deepSleep to reduce power, but to wake up I need to reset the chip. THis can be done by connecting IO16 and RESET, but this will also cause the chip to not reset when you want to flash new software (since IO16 is held HIGH while running). I added a diode to block the HIGH to get to the RESET so it only can pull the RESET low and it works like a charm.

Nest the stepper I dont know why but the STepper lib proived does not work by itself. If you make alot of steps it will fail due to a watchdog reset, I also noticed I need to switch the 2 middle pins in the software for the stepper motor to work correctly but this can be an issue with the daypower ones I use (they have 4 controls pins and instead of 1,2,3,4 I needed to use 1,3,2,4). Hence I wrote the code to roatet ste stepper myself and also implemented smooth movement (to achive this I had to #define private public, in order to acsess the delay & modify it)