So I've never worked with an arduino before and was looking for some general advice on a project I wanted to implement! Essentially, I want to have an arduino that will always be connected to LED lights and a speaker. Whenever I send a POST call to a specific web URL or a webhook to this URL, I want the arduino to receive that signal and in turn, flash lights and play a sound. What sort of equipment would I need and how would I go about setting up this project.
It would be through wifi and the arduino wouldn't necessarily have to serve the webpage but it would just pick up the responses that the webpage would be receiving. I am also open to other ways the arduino could receive the signal but right now I do have signals that are being sent as POST calls to an address and I was hoping the arduino could potentially pick this up.
Ambitious project for someone who has done nothing with the Arduino.
But since you're starting from square -2, I'd recommend starting off with not an Arduino but an ESP8266 variant such as the Wemos D1 Mini. Cuts out a lot of the work of making the Arduino Wifi capable.
The coding bits are not terribly difficult, but there are many ways to approach it depending on what your client side web junk looks like.
So I'm thinking about using yaler to set up my wifi enabled arduino with its own web address and my web server will just send POST calls to my arduino's web address. Whenever my arduino receives the call, it would flash the lights. Would I be able to connect my arduino to an external power source and make this work?
