July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 6m
English
Content preview from Internet of Things with ESP8266
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Receiving alerts via push notifications
In the last project of the chapter, we are going to see how to send a third type of notification: push notifications. These are perfect for important alerts, as they will show up right on your phone when they're triggered.
To do so, we'll be using an application called Pushover that exists for iOS and Android. You first need to create an account at:
Inside the Pushover dashboard, you'll need to get the API key; you'll need it in a moment to link Pushover to your IFTTT account.
Inside IFTTT, you can now connect the Pushover channel:
Now, we are ready to create the final recipe for this chapter. ...