Ship the project, not the plumbing.
Practical, tested walk-throughs for getting hardware talking to the cloud — real Arduino code, the bits other tutorials skip (like getting commands back to the device), and the battery tricks that make a sensor last months.
The open-source Adafruit IO alternative you host on your own Cloudflare account
Looking for an Adafruit IO alternative without rate caps or data-retention limits? nodrix is open-source IoT you deploy to your own Cloudflare account — plain HTTPS/WebSocket, dashboards, automations, and a read API, with your telemetry in your own tenancy.
Read the guideAn Arduino Cloud alternative for any board — open-source, on your own Cloudflare
Arduino Cloud is polished but tied to the Arduino ecosystem and a hosted freemium plan. nodrix is an open-source alternative for any board that speaks HTTPS — deployed to your own Cloudflare account, no per-device limits, no lock-in.
Read the guideThe open-source Blynk alternative that runs on your own Cloudflare account
Looking for a Blynk alternative? nodrix is open-source IoT you deploy to your own Cloudflare account — no per-device pricing, no hosted cloud holding your data, plain HTTPS/WebSocket with dashboards, automations, and a read API.
Read the guideA Datacake alternative without per-device pricing — open-source, on your Cloudflare
Want a Datacake alternative that drops per-device pricing and keeps your data in your own tenancy? nodrix is open-source IoT you deploy to your own Cloudflare account — low-effort dashboards, automations, and a read API, billed as Cloudflare usage.
Read the guideBuild an ESP32 automatic plant watering system
A complete ESP32 self-watering build: calibrate a capacitive soil sensor, switch a pump safely through a relay, and let the cloud run the watering logic over a single WebSocket — closed-loop, broker-free, on your own Cloudflare account.
Read the guideESP32 battery life: deep sleep + cloud telemetry that lasts months
Make a battery-powered ESP32 sensor run for months while still reporting to the cloud. Deep sleep structure, RTC-memory Wi-Fi caching, a real power budget, and the dev-board traps that quietly kill battery life.
Read the guideConnect an ESP32 to the cloud over HTTPS — a complete guide (no MQTT broker)
Push ESP32 sensor data to the cloud over HTTPS and receive commands back — no MQTT broker. Full Arduino code for telemetry, control writes, and months of battery life with deep sleep.
Read the guideReceive commands on an ESP32 from the cloud (the downlink, in depth)
How to get data back to an ESP32 over HTTP: poll for control writes and ack them, or hold a control WebSocket open for instant updates. The downlink most IoT tutorials skip.
Read the guideESP8266 to the cloud over HTTPS — a live dashboard with no broker
Push ESP8266 sensor data to a cloud dashboard over HTTPS — no MQTT broker. Full Arduino code with BearSSL on the ESP8266's tight RAM, control writes back to the board, and the deep-sleep wiring that makes a battery sensor last.
Read the guideHome Assistant vs nodrix: local smart-home hub or your own cloud IoT backend?
Home Assistant vs nodrix — they solve different problems. HA is a local home-automation hub for off-the-shelf devices; nodrix is an open-source cloud IoT backend you deploy to your own Cloudflare for custom hardware, remote dashboards, and a read API. Here's how to choose, and how they pair.
Read the guideRaspberry Pi Pico W to the cloud with MicroPython — a live dashboard
Send Raspberry Pi Pico W sensor data to a cloud dashboard with MicroPython over HTTPS — no broker. Full code for telemetry with urequests, commands back to the board, the onboard temperature sensor, and an honest note on Pico W TLS.
Read the guideA lightweight ThingsBoard alternative for makers — zero servers to run
ThingsBoard is powerful but heavy to self-host. nodrix is an open-source alternative that one-click deploys to your own Cloudflare account — no Java, Postgres, broker, or VM to operate, with dashboards, edge automations, and a read API.
Read the guideA ThingSpeak alternative for realtime IoT you own — open-source, on your Cloudflare
Need a ThingSpeak alternative without the update-rate floor or annual message cap? nodrix is open-source IoT you deploy to your own Cloudflare account — realtime telemetry and control, dashboards, automations, and a read API, all in your tenancy.
Read the guideA Ubidots alternative that drops per-dot pricing — open-source, on your Cloudflare
Looking for a Ubidots alternative without per-dot or per-device pricing? nodrix is open-source IoT you deploy to your own Cloudflare account — dashboards, events, automations, and a read API, with costs that track Cloudflare usage instead of data points.
Read the guideDeploy your own IoT cloud, in a click
Free and open source. Deploy nodrix straight to your own Cloudflare account, or star the repo to follow where it's headed.
One-click deploy provisions everything into your own Cloudflare account — nothing leaves it.