Finally got all the supplies in the mail for 2 repeaters! I'm going to recover from jet lag tonight and will be in sudo wiring them up Thursday night if anyone wants to help. I could use an esp2866 expert.
I imagine you're referring to the esp8266 wifi chip (couple of digits switched).
I've done some work with the Adafruit.com breakout board that eases use of it, so it's possible I could advise. I used Lua (reflashed to get the latest version) and
a cloud-customized support library (a service someone put up for the purpose).
I'm based in Los Angeles, so I'm unlikely to routinely get to your vicinity (I've
been mostly a lurker on this list, but have been doing some work with mesh at
the City of L.A. on ubnt.com hardware reflashed with the ham AREDN.org software.)