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ESP8266 Home Automation Projects

By : Catalin Batrinu

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Overview of this book

The ESP8266 is a low-cost yet powerful Wi-Fi chip that is becoming more popular at an alarming rate, and people have adopted it to create interesting projects. With this book, you will learn to create and program home automation projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. You will learn how to build a thermostat to measure and adjust the temperature accordingly and how to build a security system using the ESP8266. Furthermore, you will design a complete home automation system from sensor to your own cloud. You will touch base on data monitoring, controlling appliances, and security aspects. By the end of the book, you will understand how to completely control and monitor your home from the cloud and from a mobile application. You will be familiar with the capabilities of the ESP8266 and will have successfully designed a complete ready-to-sell home automated system.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Getting Started with the ESP8266

Starting with the ESP8266 chip

Installing Arduino IDE

How to install a library

It is time for your first program

Connecting ESP8266 to Wi-Fi

Getting data from the internet

Sending data to the internet

Summary

Building and Configuring Your Own MQTT Server

Message Queue Telemetry Transport

Introducing Mosquitto broker

ESP8266 and MQTT

Publishing data from the ESP8266

Receiving MQTT messages in the ESP8266

Securing Mosquitto

Summary

Building a Home Thermostat with the ESP8266

SPIFFS

Temperature sensor

Summary

Control Appliances from the ESP8266

Using the WiFiManager library

ESP8266 and Infrared communication

Summary

Using ESP8266 to Build a Security System

Passive infrared sensor

Summary

Securing Your Data

Enabling encryption on mosquitto

Securing a connection between ESP8266 and an MQTT broker

Working offline

Summary

Real-Time Communication

WebSockets

Streaming data from ESP8266

Summary

Adding a Mobile Application to Your Smart Home

Installing Docker and using containers

Summary

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ESP8266 and MQTT

To use the ESP8266 as a client for sending data to a broker you will need a library that offers MQTT support. For this you can use the PubSubClient library, which can be installed like other libraries; see Chapter 1, Getting Started with the ESP8266: