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I'm designing my home automation architecture and considering both MQTT (Mosquitto on a RPi) and EasyIoT.

MQTT Pros:

• Open architecture
• Supported by most hardware and software platforms
• Low footprint
• Fast
• Very active and growing community

MQTT Cons:

• Need to code the whole app including front-end

EasyIoT Pros

• Everything is done

EasyIoT Cons:

• Not native RPi server (Mono dependant)
• Proprietary (?) / No community behind it (my main concern is the continuity of the project)
• Not open source server code

Would like to read your opinions. TIA!

Would the esp8266 processor not handle it on its own ? ESP12 boards have 16 pins and so lots of GPIO pins to use

I need to read analog sensors and send commands to actuators, that's why I need and Arduino board.

Check out OpenHAB for a front end over MQTT.