Controlling the lock from the cloud

It's now time to see how to control our door lock from the cloud. Again, we'll use the dashboard feature of aREST to rapidly build a cloud dashboard for our project:

  1. Simply go to:

    http://dashboard.arest.io/

  2. After creating an account, you'll be able to create your first dashboard:
    Controlling the lock from the cloud
  3. Once it's been created, simply click on the name of the new dashboard:
    Controlling the lock from the cloud
  4. From there, you'll be able to create a new element. As we simply want on/off buttons here, configure your dashboard with the following settings: name the element Lock

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