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Thanks for the info. Do you mean something like the linked YouTube? https://youtu.be/NuwXAvgs4Ho

I like it and it certainly doable but it seems a little janky to me. I really wish there was a hacker friendly, non-cloud "connected" solution. I know we're in the minority with that sort of thing and most people want user friendly..

Again, thanks! I will start looking for smoke detectors that I can read the state with an esp32 or similar (maybe just put one of the detectors next to and already running raspberry pi?). I guess I was thinking of an out-the-box solution but maybe I'm dreaming (-:

Probably the same sentiment as many of the comments already present, but I haven't read all of them.

Don't people understand that the original Internet was/is built for exactly this(?); end to end connectivity between any two hosts. This is still mostly possible, but you do now have to get a public/routable ipv4 address. IPv6 gets back to the E2E ideal, without any overlay.

P2P systems from 20 years ago also solved this problem. For example hidden services on Tor, i2p, generic DHTs, etc.

Why people think we need to redo everything so that it works with JS and Blockchain boggles the mind. It's not corporate vs. individual as the seem to argue, it's just pro Blockchain, or pro Ethereum or something else.

This article seems to just be framing this same non-argument in a slightly different way. Get a static, public IP and run your microhttpd blog for pennies. Don't act like hosting it on an overcomplicated overengineed Blockchain network is going to decentalize the web. It's already decentralized, but nobody wants to go to your hidden service...