IPv6 on Sonoff w/ custom firmware ?

[Bram van den Hout]

Hi,

I have recently received a Sonoff Basic module and flashed it with Tasmota firmware.

The device is now linked to my wi-fi and is talking MQTT to my Domoticz over IPv4.

I want to have the Sonoff communicate over IPv6 to my network & the internet.

Is it possible w/ Tasmota or any other firmware?

Searching Google, didn't deliver any results...

Thanks,

Bram

[Jan Chrillesen]

Den søndag den 2. juli 2017 kl. 08.49.55 UTC+2 skrev Bram van den Hout:

 

I have recently received a Sonoff Basic module and flashed it with Tasmota firmware.

The device is now linked to my wi-fi and is talking MQTT to my Domoticz over IPv4.

I want to have the Sonoff communicate over IPv6 to my network & the internet.

Is it possible w/ Tasmota or any other firmware?

Hi Brad

My understanding is the following: Espressif (the makers of ESP8266) provides two different SDK's - one is based on FreeRTOS and one isn't (non-OS SDK). The non-OS does not support IPv6 (even due to the fact that it's based on lwip, which supports IPv6). The ESP8266 Arduino uses the non-OS SDK, hence it doesn't support IPv6. The RT-SDK should support IPv6 but as long as the SDK used by Arduino does not support IPv6, there's no way that the Tasmota firmware will support IPv6

As for the ESP32, only a RT SDK is provided, and it's confirmed to support IPv6 - so eventually the ESP32 Arduino will support IPv6. Personally I doubt that ESP8266 on Arduino will ever get IPv6, unless espressif release all the source code for the SDK

- Jan

[Bram van den Hout]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for your answer!