Paul Wilhelm
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IoT mailbox guard

Receive an e-mail when your good ol' mailbox is opened? No problem with this low-power IoT mailbox guard, using the cheap ESP-01S module!

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IoT mailbox guard

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Arduino
To use the RX pin as a normal GPIO (in this case as an open collector output, which is pulled to LOW at the end of the program), the following code snippet is required:
Serial.end();
Serial.begin(115200, SERIAL_8N1, SERIAL_TX_ONLY);
...
pinMode(3, FUNCTION_3);
pinMode(3, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(3, LOW);

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Receive an e-mail when your good ol' mailbox is opened? No problem with this low-power IoT mailbox guard, using the cheap ESP-01S module!

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Paul Wilhelm

Paul Wilhelm

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