Ways to implement smart home on Raspberry Pi and esp8266?

Question

Smart House

There is a Raspberry Pi 2 and several esp-12s scattered around the apartment.
What is the easiest way to make esp control via wi-fi over a local network?
Of the desired requirements - updating the esp firmware over the air, independence from third-party services, the ability to write python scripts on a computer and upload them to the Raspberry Pi also over the air.

Answer 1

Not a python, but:
MajorDoMo -> MQTT -> ESP8266
You can flash a lot of things: Arduino, Espruino, NodeMCU - as far as I remember, MQTT is implemented one way or another everywhere.
How do you implement it at the same time? ))
wifi-iot.com - though most likely you will need a paid version, since it costs a penny.
PS
There is an MQTT client for python, but to be honest I don't see the answer to the question "why?".