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Internet of Things with ESP8266

You're reading from   Internet of Things with ESP8266 Build amazing Internet of Things projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468024
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 2. First Projects with the ESP8266 3. Cloud Data Logging with the ESP8266 4. Control Devices from Anywhere 5. Interacting With Web Services 6. Machine-to-Machine Communications 7. Sending Notifications from the ESP8266 8. Controlling a Door Lock from the Cloud 9. Building a Physical Bitcoin Ticker 10. Wireless Gardening with the ESP8266 11. Cloud-Based Home Automation System 12. Cloud-Controlled ESP8266 Robot 13. Building Your Own Cloud Platform to Control ESP8266 Devices Index

Receiving notifications when the lock is opened


Controlling the lock from the cloud is great, but you can only find out its current state by opening the dashboard on your computer or mobile phone. But what if you are on the road, and the lock is attached to a quite important door in your home? You would want to be alerted when the door is opened.

This is exactly what we are going to do now using IFTTT. We are going to set up the board so it sends notifications to your smartphone when the door lock is opened:

  1. First, go to IFTTT, and add two channels if that's not been done yet: the Maker channel and the Pushover channel. Also install the Pushover app on your smartphone. To learn more about this, refer to the Chapter 7, Sending Notifications from the ESP8266.

  2. Then, create a new recipe, and choose the Maker channel as the trigger:

  3. We need to use the Maker channel here, as it will allow us to use custom projects like ours with IFTTT. As the trigger for the channel, put the lock_opened event:

  4. As the...

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