453 Use your Arduino and ESP32/ESP8266 from your Smartphone. No Cloud! (RemoteXY)

We all love Microcontrollers and Smartphones. Unfortunately, they do not work well together because not everybody can create Smartphone apps and connect them via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to an ESP32. Arduinos are even more complicated because they do not offer communication. This is why I like the project I will show you today: Its name is RemoteXY. Of course, it uses the Arduino IDE!

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[WacKEDmaN]

i always go this route... cloud based stuff is useless... i create a dynamic webpage with javascript that is served from the ESP... any device on my network can connect to it...not screwing around with specialised libraries or smartphone apps

[BerndFelsche]

Thanks for making the video.

Exploring new technologies is always daunting. If one doesn't have the comfort of somebody nearby who's already done it, then a video like this is the next best thing.

[larssjodahl]

Wow! Great tip and tutorial, Andreas! This will really speed up development of different ideas, because of how easy it becomes, to "play around" with sensors to figure out how the behave (and test them if you think they're broken), and also a handy way to create a remote control for (almost) anything in your smartphone!
I will definitely check it.
Keep up the great tutorials, you're an inspiration!

[mt-qcqh]

Perfect! I can't say how often I've contemplated an iPhone interface to my esp world. This afternoon.... finally a garage opener remote on my phone! Tomorrow.... everything!

[gordonpayne]

Thank you for making us aware of this great project Andreas! I look forward to playing with it myself! Nice alternative to Blynk.

[payloh_]

I have always wanted to make "apps" on my smartphone for arduino projects but never have fallen through with it. Thanks so much for your helpful vids andreas!

[sofronio.]

Your video is so detailed and to the point. Thank you sir! I can't wait to go home to try that!

[doranku]

This is a great library to create simple interfaces with. Thanks from bringing this to my/out attention.

[javiers.]

Happy to see a video about IOT that one can catch up for simple projects (without fancy Graphana, Mosquito, node-red usw.) Thanks :)

[qzorn]

I love ESP32 RemoteXY projects. One project was to make a remote loadcell calibration test meter located in a hazard room. Then display the 0 to 25, 000lbs readings on a smart-phone at the operator station to compare the HMI touch-screen readings for accuracy. Omega DPS20-HV-RTU 6 digit panel meter with Modbus RTU output was used. The esp32 read the Modbus values and transmitted the Bluetooth results to the free RemoteXY smart-phone app. It worked very well. The project price was much cheaper than other professional wireless systems. After working it seemed simple with a learning curve. 😎 Thank you so much for this very interesting video. I am still learning.

[gregorymccoy]

Great work on producing these little gems!

[PhG]

Waw, this is really an awesome video and what a great product/project. I immediately made an account, downloaded and will start tinkering. We truly live in an amazing era.

[tekmakerUK]

Nice project. I intent to use this for my Mag Loop controller project, thanks M0RLF!

[alikaperdue]

Excellent video. I also appreciate no embedded advertising... thumbs up

[gamerpaddy]

a long while ago, before the esp8266 days i used a hc05 bluetooth serial module on the arduino site and a android app made in app inventor (its free and doesnt have limits like remotexy), its a like lego building blocks, visual programming, no code needed and can be debugged in realtime on the phone. worked quite well.

[davidwitten]

An Excellent presentation, as always!

I am using a very similar product called GUI-O, which appears at first glance to work in a similar way. My project involves collecting data from ground-based magnetometers and GNSS devices to capture Ionospheric disturbances and shifts in total electron content (TEC) due to solar emissions. Using this product allows me to configure and collect data from my instruments either locally or using MQTT communications relayed by a simple broker running on my own Virtual Private Server (VPS - Akamai/Linode) running in the cloud. The pricing model is slightly different but modest. It requires very little in the way of development/startup cost. This approach allows me to expand the user base at little more than $10/user (paid by the user) and allows almost unlimited expansion.

[ivovass]

Very practical and useful indeed. Thanks for sharing and inspiring to try something new

[michaegi]

THis is very impressive. I'm planning to do something with a remote control. I guess this will speed up my project alot.

[IanSHarrison]

Thanks again, I have been mulling over such an architecture to allow embedded device (with no external comms in normal operation) to be set up on initial installation. They have done the hardwork already. Now just need time to do that project (but need to finish another project first).

[avejst]

Great video as always 👍
Good find.
Thanks for sharing your expirences with All of us 👍😀