As i heared that homeyduino is no longer supported at version 2.0 what is the best other choise tot communicate with a ESP8266. Because my House is full with them and I am happy with how it is now working. I want to keep al traffic local so if the internet is down it still can work.

That’s too bad. I’m also running a couple of ESP8266 devices with homeyduino. Have you taken a look at the MQTT Broker app ?

Did you file a request at https://support.athom.com/hc/nl/requests/new so Athom knows more people want this?

Yes it is! Buy isn’t mqtt working on a external server so you always need internet?

Good one but needs al lot more programming I see

Don’t know 100% sure ( @scanno can tell probably) but I think everything needed for mqtt is running on Homey: https://apps.athom.com/search?query=mqtt

The MQTT Broker app is running on Homey and is a MQTT 3.1.1 compliant server. Are there any specific questions? Wiith the MQTT client app you can create triggerCards that trigger when a message is received on a topic that is given in that triggerCard. You can also send a message on a specific topic. …

Oke have been looking in to the MQTT and it looks good, need more programming but not much. Is there some example of sending a value from the ESP or to?

I recently converted a Homeyduino project to MQTT and a VirtualDevice. It was rather easy! For you arduino project you can take a look at PubSubClient Below you can take a excerpt of my code: const char *mqttServer = "192.168.1.61"; const int mqttPort = 8883; const char *mqttUser = "test"; const …

Homeyduino @ V2.0

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Rocodamelshekima January 6, 2019, 7:22pm 3

Maybe check this post?

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