ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:00 am #21968 Hello guys,

I'm new with esp but I read some materials so I know my way around:).

My question is how can I access my esp 12 from anywhere via internet.

To clarify I will connect my esp to my home router. On my esp I have a temperature sensor connected. I want to access from my Android phone browser the ESP and display the temperature. Note that I want to do this from any place, not being forced to connect my phone to my home router via wireless.
Thanks in advance !

- Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:40 am #21974 Very easy, just forward port on your router to ESP address in your home network.
I will let others explain the drawback to this.
Other solutions include VPN and SSH tunnelling, but they are more trouble to set up.

- Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:54 pm #22023

• Set up a server 'X.com' somewhere on the Internet
• Use ESP8266 to push temperature to X.com at regular intervals
• Use Android or any browser to read temperature from X.com

- Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:30 am #22141 You can read directly from ESP ( but you need a public IP address)
or
You can use thingspeak.com - eg. https://thingspeak.com/channels/26576#publicview

and next read it via android.apk