ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:30 am #51521 Hi,

I've recently purchased an ESP8266 and, was pleased to get it running with a simple web server very quickly.

I'd like to use it for a home heating control project, but using a WWW server has some drawbacks:

- Requires a static IP for access from the web
- Isn't secure

I don't need instantaneous responses from the ESP, so I wonder if a good solution might be to use a 3rd-party service which the ESP can connect to and poll every few minutes, which I can update securely from anywhere with a phone app?

There seem to be a number of projects online offering solutions for remote control, but without experience it's hard to know where to begin. I wonder if someone with some experience of these things could give me a recommendation to get me started?

The project for a relative who's not especially technically-minded, so the simpler the final solution the better!

Thanks.

- Wed Jul 27, 2016 5:06 am #51577 Have a look at MQTT + opeHAB.

- Mon Aug 01, 2016 1:26 pm #51895 Thanks, I will take a look. Since I posted I've also discovered Blynk, which really impressed me. I'm not sure is it's secure though.