This time I was adding an ESP8266 devboard and a relais to a dumb power plug, to allows us to control all sorts of loads over the network, for example for standalone lamps.
Lessons learned: Don’t forget to add OTA functionality as it will be very hard to update the software on the microcontroller otherwise.
When the housing is closed it looks like this:
The firmware can be any simple platformio/arduino sketch or even esphome! With esphome you only declare peripherals and it will create the source code automatically, even remote debugging over WiFi is possible (will cover this in a future post)
In the next days, I will post another showcase where I add the same esp and relais to an ikea lamp.
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