Need help with starting my car

[PeteKnight]

Yes, but if you take a look at this, you’ll see that there are many ESP32 pins that are suitable for use with relays:

ESP32 Pinout Reference: Which GPIO pins should you use? | Random Nerd Tutorials

But of course there’s nothing to stop you using an ESP32 and one of more MCP23017s.
I did a few experiments with MCP23017s recently and wrote-up some of my findings here:

Using the MCP23017 IO Expansion Board

EDIT NOVEMBER 2021… Anyone interested in controlling multiple relays may also want to take a look at this topic, which uses a pre-built 16-way relay board and 2x 74hc595 shift registers: END OF EDIT . I had a project recently where I wanted to use 5 physical buttons, with built-in LED indicators, to control 5 relays. That meant having 15 GPIOs available, so I built the project around an ESP32 dev board. I also needed a few more GPIO pins for other sensors, so by the time I was done I was o…

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