Keep on getting scandone

Question

I have a node server with express and socket io behind nginx reverse proxy at AWS. I am try to connect remotely from my NodeMCU esp8266 through websocket io client to my server using WebSocketClientSocketIO (unsuccessfully). I am new and don't know what I am doing wrong. Following are my debug messages. I keep on getting scandone.

SDK:2.2.1(cfd48f3)/Core:2.4.2/lwIP:2.0.3(STABLE-2_0_3_RELEASE/glue:arduino-2.4.1-13-g163bb82)/BearSSL:6d1cefc
del if0
usl
mode : null
mode : sta(84:f3:eb:b7:4e:8c)
add if0

Connecting.....scandone
state: 0 -> 2 (b0)
.state: 2 -> 3 (0)
state: 3 -> 5 (10)
add 0
aid 1
cnt

connected with Zlink, channel 13
dhcp client start...
....ip:192.168.10.8,mask:255.255.255.0,gw:192.168.10.1
.
Connected to Zlink
IP address: 192.168.10.8

[SETUP] BOOT WAIT 4...
[SETUP] BOOT WAIT 3...
[SETUP] BOOT WAIT 2...
[SETUP] BOOT WAIT 1...
state: 5 -> 0 (0)
rm 0
scandone
scandone
scandone
scandone
scandone
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My sketch:

/*
 * WebSocketClientSocketIO.ino
 *
 *  Created on: 06.06.2016
 *
 */
#include <Arduino.h>

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFiMulti.h>
#include <WiFiClient.h> 
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>
#include <ESP8266HTTPClient.h>
#include <WebSocketsClient.h>
#include <Hash.h>
ESP8266WiFiMulti WiFiMulti;
WebSocketsClient webSocket;
const char *ssid = "MyWiFiName";  
const char *password = "mypassword";
#define USE_SERIAL Serial
#define MESSAGE_INTERVAL 30000
#define HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL 25000
uint64_t messageTimestamp = 0;
uint64_t heartbeatTimestamp = 0;
bool isConnected = false;
void webSocketEvent(WStype_t type, uint8_t * payload, size_t length) {
    switch(type) {
        case WStype_DISCONNECTED:
            USE_SERIAL.printf("[WSc] Disconnected!\n");
            isConnected = false;
            break;
        case WStype_CONNECTED:
            {
                USE_SERIAL.printf("[WSc] Connected to url: %s\n",  payload);
                isConnected = true;
        // send message to server when Connected
                // socket.io upgrade confirmation message (required)
                webSocket.sendTXT("5");
            }
            break;
        case WStype_TEXT:
           USE_SERIAL.printf("[WSc] get text: %s\n", payload);
                        // send message to server
            // webSocket.sendTXT("message here");
            break;
        case WStype_BIN:
            USE_SERIAL.printf("[WSc] get binary length: %u\n", length);
                        hexdump(payload, length);
            // send data to server
            // webSocket.sendBIN(payload, length);
            break;
    }
};
void setup() {
  delay(1000); 
    // USE_SERIAL.begin(921600);
    USE_SERIAL.begin(115200);
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);        //Prevents reconnection issue (taking too long to connect)
  delay(1000);
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);        //This line hides the viewing of ESP as wifi hotspot
 startWiFi();
    USE_SERIAL.setDebugOutput(true);
    USE_SERIAL.println();
    USE_SERIAL.println();
    USE_SERIAL.println();
      for(uint8_t t = 4; t > 0; t--) {
          USE_SERIAL.printf("[SETUP] BOOT WAIT %d...\n", t);
          USE_SERIAL.flush();
          delay(1000);
      }

   // WiFiMulti.addAP("SSID", "passpasspass");

    WiFi.disconnect();
    while(WiFiMulti.run() != WL_CONNECTED) {
        delay(100);
    }


```   // webSocket.beginSocketIO("192.168.0.123", 81);
      webSocket.beginSocketIO("http://www.myDomainName.com", 80, "/addr");
 //addr is address where I want to send messages
    //webSocket.setAuthorization("user", "Password"); // HTTP Basic Authorization
    webSocket.onEvent(webSocketEvent);
}
void loop() {
webSocket.loop();
testSend();
    if(isConnected) {
        uint64_t now = millis();
        if(now - messageTimestamp > MESSAGE_INTERVAL) {
            messageTimestamp = now;
            // example socket.io message with type "messageType" and JSON payload
            webSocket.sendTXT("42[\"messageType\",{\"greeting\":\"hello\"}]");
        }
        if((now - heartbeatTimestamp) > HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL) {
            heartbeatTimestamp = now;
            // socket.io heartbeat message
            webSocket.sendTXT("2");
        }
    };
};
void startWiFi() {
   WiFi.begin(ssid, password);     
  USE_SERIAL.println("");
  USE_SERIAL.print("Connecting");
  // Wait for connection
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    USE_SERIAL.print(".");
  };
  //If connection successful show IP address in serial monitor
  USE_SERIAL.println("");
  USE_SERIAL.print("Connected to ");
  USE_SERIAL.println(ssid);
  USE_SERIAL.print("IP address: ");
  USE_SERIAL.println(WiFi.localIP());  //IP address assigned to your ESP
  };
void testSend(){
   webSocket.sendTXT("Hello from esp");
   delay(1000);
  };
`
My code on node server where I am trying to collect messages from esp8266 is very simple as bellow:

socket.on('addr1', function (req,res) {
   console.log(req);
   });

Answer 1

Try to use your Local IP as your client WebSocket.

...
...
const char* host = "192.168.x.x";
WifiClient wificlient;
...
...

void setup(){
  ...
  ...
  startWiFi();
  //WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);
  //WiFi.disconnect();
  if(!wificlient.connect(host, 80)){
    Serial.println(F("connection failed! "));
    return;
  }
  client.setClient(wificlient);
  ...
  ...
}

also add your host on the express NodeJS. I found a issue like your this

...
...
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(http);
var host = "192.168.x.x";
var port = "80";
...
...
socket.emit("<your-text>");
server.listen(host, port, function(){
  console.log("listening on http://"+host+":"+host+" ");
});
...
...  

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

in the sketch 'simple WiFi begin() is mixed with WiFiMulti system. first the sketch connects to AP and then disconnects and starts WiFiMulti. but:

no AP is configured for WiFiMulti to connect