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Hi all,

So I am new to this. To say i am a novice is an understatement. Saying that I did order my first board that should be coming in a few days. So I will be asking lots of novice questions when it does come in. I would like to ask a few questions.

1. Is there a few videos on how to setup this board?
2. Any recommendations for my first 2-3 project to get my hands wet? and lastly the real reason i am getting into this stuff
3. Would I be able to Monitor/Open/Close my Garage through this board using sensors from my Web app(android) from the internet?

I know this might be a lot to ask for a small board like this but its worth asking.

Thanks and any help is appreciated.

I have created a board using the ESP-01 and a pic16f688. In order to use a multitude of IOTs around my house I used a Raspberry Pi running LAMP as my central goto serving up Web pages and limiting access via htacess . I have an adroid app which saves your login data forthe htacess and displays a web pages which displays the current status and allows you to open/close the garage door or turn on an outlet. I also wrote a simplet VB.net for controling the devices over the subnet. The ESP is running LUA and sends out serial data to the PIC chip. The pic parses the data and responds as needed, either reading an input or turning on an output (momentarily or cycling). The pic also acts as a watchdog and resets the ESP as needed if it locks up.
If anyone is interested I will be following up when I get back to Houston and posting details.

Joey

So as a novice this all looks a little bit more complicated. Can we use Arduino Uno board to accomplish this instead?

i.e. to connect to a IoT like gateway??