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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

Enabling encryption on mosquitto


To enable encryption on mosquitto, you need first to have certificates. You can buy them from a company that is issuing certificates or you can generate them yourself as self-sign certificates.

Installing the openssl package

First, verify that you have the openssl package installed and it has a newer version (1.0.2g), as seen in the following screenshot:

If you don't have openssl installed you need to install it first, using the following command:

sudo apt install openssl on Ubuntu

Or use the following command:

yum install openssl on CentOS/Redhat

Generating your own certificates

First go to /etc/mosquitto/certs and issue the following command:

sudo openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout ca.crt -out cert.crt -days 9999

You will then be invited to fill some details, as seen in the following screenshot, about the owner of the certificate, such as country of residence, state, company, city, email address, and the most important one is the Fully Qualified Domain Name...