LED Website Indicator – an LED lights up when someone visits your site
Recently while looking for coding work I connected an LED to my resume site so that I would have instant feedback in the form of a visual notification whenever anyone visited. People seemed to like the idea when I wrote about it on my blog, so I have made this into a free service. Using ESP8266, my own hosted MQTT broker and WordPress plugin. If you want to try it out, I have the instructions over at https://ledindicator.devsoft.co.za - see the "learn" page. All you need is a spare ESP8266 module and a WordPress site. I'm concentrating on WordPress for now, but it should be…
LED Website Indicator – an LED lights up when someone visits your site launched on October 23, 2021 with 12 votes, #1,219 of 2,933 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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LED Website Indicator is a free service that triggers a physical LED light whenever someone visits a WordPress website. It uses an ESP8266 microcontroller connected to an MQTT broker, allowing site owners to receive instant visual feedback of visitor activity. Users need a spare ESP8266 module and a WordPress site to get started. The maker plans to expand support beyond WordPress and potentially offer pre-programmed devices with RGB LEDs if interest grows.
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Recently while looking for coding work I connected an LED to my resume site so that I would have instant feedback in the form of a visual notification whenever anyone visited. People seemed to like the idea when I wrote about it on my blog, so I have made this into a free service. Using ESP8266, my own hosted MQTT…
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