It's been a busy summer and a full rental season since I first automated my vacation rental and it worked beautifully! All season I simply forwarded new reservation emails and it took care of everything else. But there is still one sticking point... I don't want…
One of my recent projects required an ESP8266 device to interface with AWS. I tried AWS IoT first, but it wasn't what I wanted. Instead, I decided to call a simple API hosted in AWS. This sounds like a simple thing to do, but like…
I had the need to create a tiny API recently and decided to finally try out AWS Lambda. It's probably the leader in the "serverless" movement, which really just means someone else manages your servers for you. Normally, I'd have had to stand up an EC2…
I spent some time recently trying to get some ESP8266 devices to connect to AWS IOT. AWS IOT is really just an MQTT broker as a service. However, it has a big caveat for the ESP8266: it requires TLS 1.2. For the longest time, there…