ESP32: push notifications with ntfy.sh, self-hosted
Send push notifications from an ESP32 to your phone with ntfy.sh. One HTTP POST, no cloud account, and the server can live on your own Raspberry Pi.
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ESP32-CAM: take and send a photo on motion via ntfy
PIR sensor triggers the ESP32-CAM, which captures a JPEG and pushes it to your phone over ntfy. Self-hosted security camera, no cloud.
Raspberry Pi: time-series dashboards with InfluxDB + Grafana
The self-hosted dashboard stack: InfluxDB stores sensor time series, Grafana graphs them. Install, wire an ESP32's MQTT feed, retention included.
ESP32: hosted MQTT brokers vs self-hosting
Compare EMQX and HiveMQ free tiers against Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi, wire an ESP32 to each, and pick the right broker for your home.
ESP32-CAM: photo delivery patterns over ntfy (attach, caption, thumbnail)
Three ways to push an ESP32-CAM photo through ntfy: raw JPEG attachment, captioned image, and thumbnail with a link. With the header semantics that make each one work.