Control ESP8266 over Facebook chatbot

Overview

This project made to control ESP8266 by message on Messsenger. You can develop it to control home lights...
Sample:

Folder structure

• web-callback : Chatbot and MQTT communication.
• esp8266 : Code for ESP8266.

Prerequirement

• MQTT broker: I suggest Eclipse Mosquitto on Ubuntu.
• Python packages: flask, requests, paho-mqtt.

  cd web-callback; pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Arduino IDE.
• Pubsubclient library.

Installation

Create a facebook page and register webhook

1. Create a page for your chatbot.
2. Go to facebook for developer and create an app.
3. Create webhook for your page. It will be the URL of your chatbot. docs1, docs2

Config and start chatbot

1. Start mosquitto broker.

   sudo service start mosquitto 
   

   You can use ngrok to tunnel your broker.
2. Change configuration in web-callback.py to match your webhook setting and topic you use to communicate with ESP8266.
3. Start chat bot

   python3 web-callback.py
   

   Or run it in development mode

   export FLASK_ENV=development
   python3 web_callback.py
   

Flash ESP8266

1. Change configurations in esp8266.ino
2. Upload the sketch.