Automation with IFTTT
In the next few recipes of this book, we are going to use another website to interact with web services: IFTTT. We'll see how IFTTT will allow you to quickly define powerful automation rules and actions that can be triggered by the Arduino board.
Getting ready
The first step for all the remaining recipes of this chapter is to create an IFTTT account at https://ifttt.com.
From there, you will be able to explore the first important part of IFTTT: channels. Channels are all the web services or triggers that you can use within IFTTT, for example, Gmail, Twitter, Pushover, and so on. You can quickly have an overview of the available channels:
For example, if you type Weather, you can quickly add the weather channel, allowing you to ...
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