Making your Devices Social

Pushingbox has a great API for connecting email, Mobile and Twitter to your devices like Arduino, Raspberry Pi. Your devices can send emails, post tweets and send mobile notifications. It is a great service for IOT applications for monitoring and acting on the data. Let's make our devices social. 

Here are the steps for connecting Pushingbox to your devices. 

• Step 1 - Go to https://www.pushingbox.com/ and sign in with google.

• Step 2 - Click on My Services to add a service.

• Step 3 - Click on Add a Service

• Step 4 - Select any Service(We have Selected email). You can also select multiple Services.

• Step 5 - Add any Name and you Email Address.

• Step 6 -Go to my Scenarios. 

• Step 7 - Enter any name for your scenario and then click on add. 

• Step 8 - Click on Add an Action to link a scenario to a Service.

• Step 9 - Click on add an Action with the service of the email that you configured in the previous steps.

• Step 10 - Enter the subject and the body of the email.

• Step 11 - Click on Test Scenario. You can note down the DeviceID as it will be used while interfacing with hardware.

• Step 12 - PushingBox will tell about the status of the Scenario. Open your mail to check.

• Step 13 - This is how It's done :)

You are done. You can get the code for hardware implementation from here - 

https://www.pushingbox.com/api.php

Just remember the deviceID. 

Happy Hacking :)