Where the Rubber Hits the Road
(This is a post in my series about my Garage Door Opener. Yes I wrote a series. About a Garage Door Opener. Check it out:
Okay, I'm an Electronics Engineer by trade, and while most of my projects are hardware-centric, I'm also comfortable with firmware and C.
So, naturally, I thought I'd give ESP8266 web page development a shot. How hard can it be?
Well, let's just say it took me longer than expected and I learnt quite a few lessons. Which I wrote about here.
But first, some requirements - this unit has to work independently of an internet connection. No cloud service, no If This Then That, it just has to work. it can act as an access point and you connect to it directly, or it can sit on your home network and be access by any device there.
Also, any device that works with HTML5 can be used to access control this unit. So iPhone, Android, Desktop of choice will work with it. No special app needed!
Okay, lets go!