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Webhooks
An introduction to webhooks
Webhooks are increasingly common and provide a handy way to send data around the internet or to trigger events. This comes in very useful if you're making your own IOT devices.
You can also control many commercial devices and link together events using websites such as IFTTT.So, what can we do with webhooks?
How about this for starters:
- Send data from a sensor
- Switch on a light
- Play music
- Control things with Amazon Alexa
- Read data from a database
- Trigger an action on motion detection
In fact, anything your computer or DIY IOT device can do, can be done with webhooks.
I use webhooks to get data from my Raspberry Pi weather station and control 433mhz devices from the internet. I'm also developing software to control my PC from the internet.