June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 28m
English
In the preceding section, we finished the motion detecting feature. But when it detects motion, besides saving a video of that motion, it only prints a message. As a home security application, this isn't enough. We need to know when motion has been detected, regardless of where we are or what we are doing. In this section, we will do this by sending notifications to our mobile phone through the IFTTT service.
IFTTT is a platform that connects many useful services. You can connect two chosen services by creating an IFTTT applet, one called this and another called that. If an event occurs on the side of this, the service will be triggered. This is what IFTTT means: if this then that.
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