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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
Raptor

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.