Publishing sensor events to the cloud
In this section, we are going to discuss publishing sensor events to the cloud. This is especially important to receive email alerts and mobile notifications when a door is open. We are assuming that you have set up your wireless pack following the instructions from Chapter 2, Serial Interfaces and Applications.
Setting up Adafruit IO
In this section, we will discuss setting up Adafruit IO for our project. Adafruit IO is a cloud service provided by Adafruit Industries that enables the Raspberry Pi Pico to be connected to the internet and sensor events published, as well as appliances controlled from anywhere on the web. The setup steps include the following:
Additional Resource
We wrote this section using https://learn.adafruit.com/ as a resource. If you run into problems, refer to the links provided in each step.
- The first step is to create an account for yourself at https://io.adafruit.com/. While the basic plan is free, there...
