ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:39 pm #31449 Hi All,

i recently has an esp8266 at our local maker faire here in charlotte NC, the show was great but one of the issues i knew i was going to have was how to talk to my esp8266 (i was using IFTTT DO app) when on public internet or other Internet when i can't get access to a NAT or maybe am being blocked by the firewall.

how are people doing this?

thanks
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- Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:42 pm #31450 Perhaps you do not need to talk directly to the device after all... For example, lots of people in the IoT world use a MQTT server outside their network, and have both the ESP devices and the controllers connect to that server.