Is there a market for this? Home automation without vendor lock-in...

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  • Tasmota

    Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

    There is probably a market for wifi devices pre-flashed with tasmota or esphome, but i doubt it is a large as you (or I) would hope for. And there are shops catering for it too:

  • esphome

    ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

    There is probably a market for wifi devices pre-flashed with tasmota or esphome, but i doubt it is a large as you (or I) would hope for. And there are shops catering for it too:

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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