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      <title>The open-source Adafruit IO alternative you host on your own Cloudflare account</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>An Arduino Cloud alternative for any board — open-source, on your own Cloudflare</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>The open-source Blynk alternative that runs on your own Cloudflare account</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>A Datacake alternative without per-device pricing — open-source, on your Cloudflare</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Build an ESP32 automatic plant watering system</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>ESP32 battery life: deep sleep + cloud telemetry that lasts months</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Connect an ESP32 to the cloud over HTTPS — a complete guide (no MQTT broker)</title>
      <link>https://nodrix.live/guides/esp32-https-cloud/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>Receive commands on an ESP32 from the cloud (the downlink, in depth)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>ESP8266 to the cloud over HTTPS — a live dashboard with no broker</title>
      <link>https://nodrix.live/guides/esp8266-iot-dashboard/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Push ESP8266 sensor data to a cloud dashboard over HTTPS — no MQTT broker. Full Arduino code with BearSSL on the ESP8266&apos;s tight RAM, control writes back to the board, and the deep-sleep wiring that makes a battery sensor last.</description>
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      <title>Home Assistant vs nodrix: local smart-home hub or your own cloud IoT backend?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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&apos;s how to choose, and how they pair.</description>
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      <title>Raspberry Pi Pico W to the cloud with MicroPython — a live dashboard</title>
      <link>https://nodrix.live/guides/raspberry-pi-pico-w-iot-dashboard/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>A lightweight ThingsBoard alternative for makers — zero servers to run</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>A ThingSpeak alternative for realtime IoT you own — open-source, on your Cloudflare</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <title>A Ubidots alternative that drops per-dot pricing — open-source, on your Cloudflare</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>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.</description>
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