Hi all!
I would like to start my first IoT project. I haven’t played with Arduino in a while...
I have two cats and most of the day I am at work and they stay home. I want to build an automated cat laser device that but I can turn on/off remotely with my phone or on my work computer...so the Arduino would be connected to the internet (?)
Do you have any suggestions on how can I control the Arduino this way?
Thanks in advance!
What is that device,
islamkarim95:
laser device
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What do You want it to do? Not making the cat lay there as a piece of meat just turned on the grill I think.
"Do you have any suggestions on how can I control the Arduino this way?"
You may want to skip the arduino itself and look at the WeMOS type wifi boards. They operate in a similar fashion as the arduinos.
You could control the device with servos, an ESP32 or RPi, and communicate over MQTT
Use Blynk! It is super easy. Google for reference.
richardax:
Use Blynk! It is super easy. Google for reference.
I think this is a great suggestion if you would move forward with arduino and IoT. And as mentioned in another post above you can buy a ESP32 or the cheaper ESP8266 Wi-Fi microchip which are both really easy to connect and youtube are full of good guides on how to do this. Then I can recommend an arduino Library called RemoteXY where you can download a smartphone app and control your arduino really easily through the ESP32 or ESP8266.
Good luck with your projects.
Cheers!