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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending push notifications


In this recipe, we are going to see how to send push notifications from your Arduino boards, via IFTTT. As we are slowly discovering the IFTTT service, we are only going to build a simple alert system here.

Getting ready

To start, you need to connect to the Pushover channel, which is a service to send notifications to your mobile device. If you don't have a Pushover account yet, create one by downloading the app on your mobile device.

Then, add the channel inside IFTTT:

Next, we are going to need some sensors connected to your Arduino board. Please see the previous chapter to see how to connect a photocell and the DHT11 sensor to your Arduino board.

How to do it...

We are now going to create our first IFTTT recipe:

  1. Create a new recipe, and select the Maker channel as the trigger:

  2. Name the event alert:

  3. Next, select Pushover as the action channel:

  4. As for the notification, we'll simply name it Alert, and write the following message:

  5. You can now create the recipe that will appear...