Sending an e-mail notification

It's now time to make our first project: sending e-mail notifications! For this first approach to notifications, we'll simply send a message at regular intervals to the e-mail address of your choice.

To connect the ESP8266 to IFTTT, we need a channel called Maker, which is available on IFTTT. You first need to go to the Channels tab and find this channel:

Once the channel is opened on your screen, you need to connect it to your IFTTT account:

This will allow you to get a key for your Maker Channel:

Make sure you have this key to hand; you'll need it really soon. As for all channels, you only need to do this once.

The next channel we'll add is the Email Channel:

Here, enter the e-mail that you will use to receive the test messages coming from the IFTTT server. Make sure to put your own e-mail, otherwise it would be considered spam.

Then, we can create a recipe that will link the Maker Channel to sending an e-mail. Simply click on the following button on the main page...