Announcing the "ST_Anything" Arduino/ThingShield Project

[ogiewon]

Have you looked an example like the following yet? Direct esp8266 to ST cloud ( no hub). Just another idea.

[OBSOLETE] Absolute Simplest ESP8266 Smart Blinds, no mqtt, rest, bridge, or broker, just your board and your hub

This is my fourth and final code to control window blinds in SmartThings with a NodeMCU ESP8266 chip and a servo. Why my fourth try? Because all of my other attempts involved setting up a RaspberryPi, configuring Home Assistant, an MQTT broker, SmartThings MQTT Bridge, configuring paths, etc, etc… All I wanted was for it to JUST WORK! But at the end of every attempt I still had the same issues: Stability and Delays. So here we are with my fourth attempt: Absolute Simplest ESP8266 Smart Blinds. Using just a micro web server on the ESP8266 and a simple HTTP GET command in SmartThings, response time is almost instantaneous and there’s no middle point of failure or complication. Intended for a standard servo (not a continuous rotation servo) and amount of tilt degrees are commented in s…

As for using ST_Anything, you could just create your own class which implements your communications with your ESP8266 devices and then makes the correct calls to send the data to ST via the ThingShield.

However, if that is all the Arduino is going to be used for, I don’t know that’d bother using ST_Anything. Instead, just write your own simple sketch based on one of the examples provided by ST for using the ThingShield.