ESPAsyncWebServer VS EnigmaIOT

Use esp async Webserver https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer

I don't know what you're doing wrong, but maybe you could change to the ESPAsyncWebServer instead of the fork you're using. Since me-no-dev works at espressif, it seems like that's basically the official webserver to use and I don't see that dvarrel did much good to it in their fork.

For something that's supposed to run at home and not be accessible from the broader Internet, you would do this by having your ESP8266 run as a WiFi client in your home internet and then using something like the EspAsynchWebServer library to make it a mini webserver than can receive requests from any browser in any of your home devices.

There is a library called ESPAsynchWebServer that will easilly allow you to run a webserver in your code on the ESP32 and ESP8266 chips with Arduino and if you check their simple example you can see it's reasonably easy to have the code for doing stuff on the hardware side (say, toggle the pin that controlls an LED) as part of the code that receives and processes HTTP requests.

Check out EspAsyncWebServer, it’s documentation will make clear how it would allow you to do this if you use it.

Go get EspAsynchServer. Check here.

I don't know what kind of Arduino you are using, but I would never try to implement a HTTP server that wasn't asynchronous. Typically using https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer

I would make the ESP32 serve up a web page that displays the battery status, and also handle a button click that turns on or off the relay. You are looking at using https://github.com/me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer

Minus the ethernet, I think this is doing what you're trying to do https://github.com/gmag11/EnigmaIOT

OMG, I'm trying to find code or a project that does this exact thing... ESP-based sensor clients communicating via ESP-NOW with another ESP acting as gateway to a remote MQTT server. I found EnigmaIOT on GitHub and it looks very full featured, but for the life of me I can't get any of its node/sensor examples to compile. ;(

Might be something to do with hairpin NAT within the firmware? Usually what you're doing works and from the comments it should work but you're missing something tiny the other examples must do? Here's a good project that has full featured star network connectivity with a portal of config to the device itself https://github.com/gmag11/EnigmaIOT

I recommend you: https://github.com/gmag11/EnigmaIOT