If you’re working on a home automation project, you’re probably knee-deep into MQTT by now. If not, you should be. The lightweight messaging protocol is an ideal choice for getting your ...

If you already have a ton of smart home devices and you're wondering what to do next, I recommend picking up an ESP8266.

It’s hardly been a month since we first heard of the impossibly cheap WiFi adapter for micros, the ESP8266. Since then orders have slowly been flowing out of ports in China and onto the workb… ...

Is there a simple, secure way to talk to an esp on a home network from outside the network? Easiest thing I can think of is get it to poll a thingspeak value or just use blynk or similar but I'd ...