pylon:
I cannot see that he's using HTTPS, as far as I can tell from the video it work(ed) with HTTP, at least for him.Have you checked that your ESP has connection to the internet? Das a simple HTTP client work?
I want to say that it's https in the database link of the person in the video.
connecting ..
connected 192.160.1.5
giving me an local IP.
The ESP module is working.