April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
5h 36m
English
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Automation with IFTTT
If This Then That (IFTTT) is an online service that allows users to create simple conditional statements called applets. The applets are triggered depending on changes made on or to other web services. For instance, you can set an IFTTT applet that sends you an e-mail if a user includes a certain hashtag in their tweets. You can also configure an applet that saves all the photos that you have been tagged in on Facebook to a cloud server such as Google Drive.
In this recipe, we will look at how to use the IFTTT online service to automate IoT projects. We will use it to publish data to different online platforms, just like Temboo. To demonstrate how to do that, we are going to publish temperature data from a DHT11 sensor to ...