MQTT

[Tom Yarmas]

These things do generate a lot of traffic, wow. I setup one ESPresence ESP32 device and it picks up a lot of phones and what not. Interesting. I'll have to solder some headers on so I can use the DHT temp/humidity sensors on the ESP32, too. 

I saw an interesting use case for this stuff while researching. Apparently this guy has a houseful of teenagers and he setup ESPresence to detect who is putting in a load of wash. He also monitors the power of the washer/dryer and the motion of the washer/dryer door. He then sends just that teen a message when the load is finished. He continues to send that teen a message until the washer or dryer door is opened indicating that they removed the wash. When I read that, I was like wow, your teens do their own wash? Good for you! Haha.

-tom


> On Jan 27, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Tom Yarmas <tom at yarmas.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure why Chrome does not seem to work for me. Chrome gives me the same error as every other browser except Opera, which tries to work, but has driver issues. The ESPHome-flasher worked beautifully. Thanks Ger!
> 
> Just started configuring the MQTT stuff and realized there is no MQTT broker in Xtension anymore. I was thinking I could get away w/o a separate broker install. I like the idea of one less thing to have to keep running. Oh well, have to install Mosquito.
> 
> -tom
> 
>> On Jan 27, 2023, at 9:53 AM, chad at holeinthewoodsfarm.com wrote:
>> 
>> You can flash ESPresence firmware onto an esp32 chip using google chrome.  It just works from the browser, easy-peasy.  But, at least on Mac, it’s the only browser that works.
>> 
>> Once you have ESPresence (or other firmware that supports OTA updates - like ESPHome.  Which I think might be a good fit for many XTension folks.  But I don’t have any spare ESP32s or time right now to play with…) flashed to the ESP32 the first time, you will be able to do firmware updates in the future via OTA with any browser.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2023, at 08:42, Tom Yarmas <tom at yarmas.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am looking in to the ESPresence esp32 devices to use with the new MQTT server.What are you using to flash the ESP32 devices? Everything seems to want to use OTA and no browser on the Mac seems to support that. I downloaded Opera and got a little bit further, but not having much luck.
>>> 
>>> -tom
>>> 
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