Hi everyone, I’m trying to figure out whether I can push simple sensor alerts from an ESP32 to my QNAP NAS for logging or notifications. I found this project about ESP32 motion detection with email alerts https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2022/03/iot-based-motion-detection-with-email-alert-using-esp32.html which is close to what I want to do, except I’d prefer the alerts to be stored or forwarded through my NAS instead of direct emails. Has anyone tried something similar, maybe using QNAP’s Container Station, MQTT broker, or a lightweight script? I’ve seen a few related discussions on Arduino forums about ESP32 cloud logging and even a couple of Raspberry Pi users pushing sensor data to local servers. Still, I’m not sure how well this translates to QNAP. Any guidance or examples would be great.
If your (unknown) NAS supports containers, then you can install whatever container is supported by your NAS architecture. Besides creating/hosting the container, nothing for your NAS to do.
If you want my opinion run away from anything to do with Espressif devices. They are highly insecure, have terrible performance (fall of the network regularly) and their development tools are awful. As someone who has multiple devices in his home with ESP chips, I wish I could rip them out and put in a better solution. They are absolutely the worst.
Send me a direct message if you want information on a much more robust and secure device.