Sending push notifications

In this recipe, we are going to see how to send push notifications from your Arduino boards, via IFTTT. As we are slowly discovering the IFTTT service, we are only going to build a simple alert system here.

Getting ready

To start, you need to connect to the Pushover channel, which is a service to send notifications to your mobile device. If you don't have a Pushover account yet, create one by downloading the app on your mobile device.

Then, add the channel inside IFTTT:

Next, we are going to need some sensors connected to your Arduino board. Please see the previous chapter to see how to connect a photocell and the DHT11 sensor to your Arduino board.

How to do it...

We are now going to create our first IFTTT recipe:

1. Create a new recipe, and select the Maker channel as the trigger:

   

2. Name the event alert:

   

3. Next, select Pushover as the action channel:

   

4. As for the notification, we'll simply name it Alert, and write the following message:

   

5. You can now create the recipe that will appear...