espurna

I've never used Tasmota (though I've heard great things), but I'd like to give props to ESPurna, another similar project: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna I use it for so many things around the house that the WiFi spectrum is probably completely saturated, it's fantastic. It even supports auto-update over HTTP, so all my devices periodically talk to my home server to see if a new firmware is available using a simple server I wrote: https://gitlab.com/stavros/espota-server Since I'm very familiar with ESPurna but not with TASMOTA or ESPHome, I can share some of its drawbacks: * Provisioning is hard. I have tens of devices and I want to deploy firmware on them with specific settings already preloaded, so I can just flash it and have it automatically connect to my Wifi, MQTT server, autoupdate server, etc. Not only do I need to compile m

And due to popularity of ESP in hobby circles, there are many good open-source firmwares for those devices, such as ESPurna with its very impressive feature set: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna The final product is better than almost any "professional" IoT device. I'd rather risk with higher odds of system failures (the Atom bug showed that not even Intel is safe) than suffer daily with slow, buggy, expensive, restricted and privacy-hostile cloud-connected trash from the likes of Logitech.

Whenever I read any post about home automation, it might as well be talking about a completely different world from mine. I've automated a lot of my house using pretty much just FOSS solutions. The Sonoff series of switches/devices is fantastic and ESP8266-based, so you can flash it with any firmware you want[1]. I wrote a small ad-hoc server to orchestrate things like "when there's motion in that room and it's dark, turn on that lamp", but you can just use Home Assistant. I have a WiFi network that has no internet access where all these go, with access to a local server running an autoupdater[2] so I can just put the new firmware in a specific directory and all my devices autoupdate. All of my devices are FOSS so I know they aren't talking to a mothership, and even if they tried to, they can't get on the internet. I do have an Alexa, whi

How do we reconcile a startups need for a walled garden with a customers need for guaranteed functionality even after the vendor shuts down? IMO, as part of the liquidation, vendors should be required to release flashing capabilities on to an open source project like espurna or tasmota. At least this way we can limit e-waste. https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna/wiki/Hardware https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota

Another excellent firmware is ESPurna (https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna). It covers zillionsof devices (including the WiFi bulbs)

You can use smart plugs like Sonoff S20[1] and flash your own firmware. They have the widely used ESP8266 inside. I use ESPurna[2] on them, which has many common integrations built-in (Alexa, MQTT, etc) and is very easy to extend further. [1] https://www.itead.cc/smart-socket.html [2] https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna

Those are really cool. Here's an esp8266 framework primarily intended for home automation: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna