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ESP8266 Home Automation Projects

By : Catalin Batrinu, Constantin Tambrea
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ESP8266 Home Automation Projects

By: Catalin Batrinu, Constantin Tambrea

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
3
Building a Home Thermostat with the ESP8266
5
Using ESP8266 to Build a Security System
Index

Summary


Now you can transmit encrypted MQTT messages to an MQTT broker, and from there to another ESP8266 or to a database or a server. Doing this, no one can intercept and alter your data, so your home or your data are secure. Security in IoT is very important nowadays, since there are a lot of devices that are not secured even with a user and a password. If you need to work offline, now you have an entire microSD card to write or read data from it. Using a battery-powered ESP8266 and deep sleep features, now you can log data to a microSD card up to few a months. Encrypt them to be sure that you are the only one that has access to them. 

In the next chapter will see how to stream data over a WebSocket connection, data that can be stored in a time series database or displayed as a real-time graphic.