Friday, September 11, 2015

Sending event notification from Facebook IoT Platform Parse.com to Raspberry Pi

Facebook has a IoT Platform called Parse - which acts like a foundation to receive and send events from various devices ( e.g Raspberry Pi and other hardware devices ), This platform can connect to Apps on desktops, mobile devices, etc and send events to devices.

Below is my experience on using this platform to push events to my Raspberry Pi from the Parse IoT Platform.

First I created a simple starter app called RPi and followed the procedure to install the necessary code on my device to connect to Facebook's  Parse platform.

Followed this link :
https://www.parse.com/apps/quickstart?app_id=rpiapp#embedded/raspberrypi

Sounded pretty quick and simple - however the sending of events from the device ( Raspberry Pi) to the Facebook's IoT Platform seems a bit challenging at time. - Working on it.

Here is a brief up of how to send events from Facebook's IoT to your Raspberry Pi.

Clicked on Test button on the parse.com page.



and on my Raspberry saw these events show up :



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