There's some good projects out there for the ESP family that come with drivers for the most common sensors and interfaces to communicate with the most common IO

There's some good projects out there for the ESP family that come with drivers for the most common sensors and interfaces to communicate with the most common IOT protocols, and all you have to do is "wire them up" via a web GUI, for example: https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy