ArduinoMKRVidor4000Tutorial VS Tasmota

I recently picked up a couple of Arduino MKR Vidor 4000s to start playing around with FPGA programming. After looking at the tutorials on the Arduino site and a bunch of poking around, I was finally able to get things working. I wrote down a list of the steps that I used and some other information that I was able to glean into a GitHub project here https://github.com/BrentSeidel/ArduinoMKRVidor4000Tutorial It contains some very simple combinatorial logic in both Verilog and VHDL. Think of it as something like a "Hello World" program.

All of my office devices are connected to Sonoff S31 smart plugs, flashed with Tasmota on their own locked-down VLAN, and can be controlled via voice, Alexa, Tasker automation on my Android, NFC tags at my office door and various scripts triggered via my StreamDeck (on Linux). This all works fantastic, and I can turn on or off my devices, including my printer, when I start or end my day at work.

The best alternative firmware example for true IOT devices is Tasmota [1]. Erase manufacturer firmware for every ESP devices the day after purchase to avoid those careless manufacturer firmwares.

[1] https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

The ESP8266 based Sonoff S31 and ESP32 based Switchbot plugs, both flashed with either Tasmota or ESPHome, are my go-to options for US WiFi smart plugs with power monitoring.