Bridge to safely monitor Tasmota devices over the internet.
Here an example of what you get with 4 cheap Tasmota smart plugs, an esp8266 running Tasmota-thinger.io-Bridge and a free thinger.io account.
You really do need nothing else !:
You can purchase inexpensive devices that are very easy to integrate into your local WiFi
e.g. 4 smart plugs with energy monitoring:
Moreover you can flash any ESPdevice to Tasmota and configure it to a large number of sensors without need to write code, using just a browser.
Tasmota works on WiFi and not on the low range Bluetooth and can be used on Smartphones and PCs altogether. However, the standard display of values is quite primitive.
You get the feature to exchange MQTT messages and hence to provide additional monitoring functions.
Caveat: devices based on the ESP8266 (quite all commercial devices) cannot encrypt communication.
That is a very serious security flaw, if you use an external MQTT server.
It is really very easy to hijack your device and turn it into a malware bot !
Inside your WLAN you are safe, but never use it with external addresses !.
Being able to remotely monitor Tasmota devices using safe Thinger.io communication. This project uses an ESP8266 as a bridge to thinger.io to log values, provide gorgeous dashboards and much more In a previous project, I used MQTT to Thinger unencrypted, which worked, but was inherently unsafe. Don’t do that !
- ESP8266 Wemos D1 Mini or similar ($4)
- Up to 4 Tasmota devices e.g. Refind P11, Sonoff, Shelly…
- A wider choice of Tasmota sensors to come…
- meta-device 5 as sum of the four real devices, or sum of the 3 first devices minus the 4th one.
- meta device gathering weather conditions from the internet
Currently the code provides support for most Tasmota smart plugs (e.g. 4 Refoss P11), which get integrated into one thinger.io combo-device with 4 subdevices. I had tested a PZME-004 AC monitor with "tasmotized" ESP8266 too: it is 100 compatible with smart plugs too.
It will rapidly evolve with following features:
- add more Tasmota sensors: please give me the MQTT strings here: arendst/Tasmota#22204
- add relay outputs
- add conditions to control the relays
- ...
Please read file /Documentation/Why_thinger.io-and_not_Open-Source.md