Internet of Things with ESP8266

Chapter 8. Controlling a Door Lock from the Cloud

This will be the first project of this book in which we'll take everything we learned so far and integrate it to make a complete Internet of Things project you can actually use in your life.

For this project, we are going to build a door lock that we can control from anywhere on the planet using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip. We are also going to see how to integrate notifications right into the software you'll build, so you will receive a push notification in case anyone opens the door lock. Let's start!

Hardware and software requirements

For this project, you will of course need an ESP8266 chip. As for most of this book, I used the Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 module, but any ESP8266 module will work fine here. ...