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24 alternatives to Smart Device ESP32 Firmware for Home Lighting and Weather Station
IoT Suite for a Smart Home consisting of ESP32-WROOM, Arduino Nano/Uno/Mega, and Raspberry Pi - TheGeekExplorer/IoT-Home
Smart Device ESP32 Firmware is open-source software for ESP32 microcontrollers that enables home lighting control and weather monitoring capabilities. Designed for hobbyists and makers interested in building connected… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Smart Device ESP32 Firmware for Home Lighting and Weather Station launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Open-source ESP32 emulator. Run real firmware locally or in your browser — no hardware, no cloud, no subscription. - mikroverk/esp32sim
6d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lazy IoT▲533Control your environment with one easy keyboard shortcut
2019 · lazy-app.com · its alternatives →
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Frame.IoT▲70An Arduino-compatible dev kit for wi-fi projects
2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is an SDK for ESP32s (microcontrollers) that runs against OpenAI's new WebRTC service [0] My hope is that people can easily add AI to lots of 'real' devices. Wearable devices, speakers around the house, toys etc... You don't have to write any code, just buy a device and set some env variables. If you have any feedback/questions I would love to hear! I hope this kicks off a generation of new interesting devices. If you aren't familiar with WebRTC it can do some magical things. Check out WebRTC for the Curious[1] and would love to talk about all the cool things that does also.…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · visionect-epaper.com · its alternatives →
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Ecoisme 2.0▲109A smart energy monitor for your home appliances
2017 · ecoisme.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code. This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly. I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WiCub▲73An IoT temperature & humidity sensor for your home
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I would like to present my project called TOMMY, which turns ESP32 devices into motion sensors that work through walls and obstacles using Wi-Fi sensing. TOMMY started as a project for my own use. I was frustrated with motion sensors that didn't detect stationary presence and left dead zones everywhere. Presence sensors existed but were expensive and needed one per room. I explored echo localization first, but microphones listening 24/7 felt too creepy. Then I discovered Wi-Fi sensing - a huge research topic but nothing production-ready yet. It ticked all the boxes: could…
2025 · tommysense.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I'm the author of ESPectre. This is an open-source (GPLv3) project that uses Wi-Fi signal analysis to detect motion using CSI data, and it has already garnered almost 2,000 stars in two weeks. Key technical details: - The system does NOT use Machine Learning, it relies purely on Math. — Runs in real-time on a super affordable chip like the ESP32. - It integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant via MQTT.
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · thingstwin.com · its alternatives →
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Weekend Project: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
2013 · gnewt.at · its alternatives →
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Get intelligent insights into your air quality
2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Toggol▲92All your smart home devices within a single app on desktop.
2020 · toggol.com · its alternatives →
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SensorKit▲91The smart home widgets that Apple didn't give us.
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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🎓 Tutorial: smart-home dashboard UI concept. Contribute to zircleUI/smarthome-tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build your own IoT sensor with the NodeMCU and Lua code coupled with the BME280 to measure temperature, humidity and air-pressure and more.
2018 · blog.alexellis.io · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone. I've recently released control-components, a C++ library I've been using for most of my embedded projects. It is written in C++17 (with some features from C++20) and uses STL and FreeRTOS under the hood. It contains a lot of building blocks that is commonly used in embedded and IoT projects: finite state machines (FSM), various counters, synchronisation primitives, system loops, sensors, schedulers, HTTP, WiFi, Web GUI, and much more. It also provides GitHub CI workflows for build automation (ccache, various checks). In general, it's a good starting point for an ESP32 project.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TypeScript port of the esptool. Contribute to toitware/esptool.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A framework and server for controlling analog LED strips with an Arduino and a NEXT LED Strip Driver Module - kienankb/LuxBase
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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