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ITEAD Sonoff switches and sockets - cheap ESP8266 Wifi+MQTT hardware

ITEAD Smart Home Products https://www.itead.cc/wiki/Sonoff_Smart_Home_Solution [image][image][image] These very cheap modules come with their special smartphone app but are all actually based on the famous ESP8266. It didn’t take long till the tinkerer community got a hold of that and started hacking. After opening up the cases, all you need to do is solder a few header pins and connect your FTDI breakout programmer. Alternative firmwares are ready to provide nice MQTT based Wifi SmartHome end…

[Framework] Homie for ESP8266

After I purchased some ESP8266-boards (NodeMCU v1.0 and WeMos D1 mini) I was looking for an easy way to connect them via wifi to an mqtt broker. I found this framework called "Homie for ESP8266" The “bare minimum sketch” (“Hello World”) is only 10 lines of code and provides everything to connect to your wifi, your mqtt broker and sending general information. It startes as an access point on configuration mode after flashing. With a simple app (Web, Android, iOS) you can configure Wif…

WiFi Relay

If you want something “off the shelf” then something like https://garageio.com/ might suit the bill. But for about $10 you can get a Wemos D1 Mini (ESP8266 board that has wifi) with a Relay Shield. I used the “Homie” framework (a search of the forums should find it) and I was able to program it up easily enough to talk to my openhab server. I have 3 of these controlling 2 garage doors and an electric gate. I also added magnetic reed switches to my setup so I can actually tell if the garage/gat…