Is there a community specific to FOSS or just general privacy oriented IoT? With plenty of hardware discussion along with software. Routers, piholes, Meshtastic, anything IoT but open source. If it touches a network but you want it to do something it doesn’t. Flashing a doorbell camera with FOSS firmware. Hosting media servers on your phones Hotspot. Loading gcode to a printer from anywhere. There are so many things and possibilities.
If there isn’t someone should start one, OpenIoT or something catchy and relevant.
Homeassistant?
There is an entire ecosystem of open SoC devices, code, platforms, development boards, etc. One of the most popular is the ESP32/8266 boards, which is a pretty good place to start.
I know, Meshtastic is almost entirely built on esp32 devices. Where is the community for this ecosystem? If there isn’t one on a widely federated instance there should be.
There’s also !meshtastic@lemmy.ml, but it’s inactive at the moment.
Are you looking for !selfhosted@lemmy.world or !homeassistant@lemmy.world
Kind of, there’s a lot of relevant posts that would be good cross posts. But they really concentrate on just networking and software. Id like a place that’s also a lot of hardware tinkering.
I’m on mobile and autocomplete isn’t available on this app, but there’s some hardware specific communities. Also, this is Lemmy, I know that I appreciate cross-posting, so always do it when you can.
Home assistant, ESPhome and Tasmota form a core of this. The self hosting community also has a strong mindset towards security.
The stuff I self host is mostly because I don’t trust the “free” services a lot of techies seem fine relying on. I’ve seen too many providers suddenly go belly up, and screw people over.
I also use defence in depth. The “S” in IoT stands for security.
