Published June 24, 2016 © GPL3+

Button Operated Email Sender

Press a button, send an email, as easy as it gets. Photon + IFTTT.

BeginnerFull instructions provided1 hour3,164

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Particle Photon

Push Button

Jumper wires (generic)

Story

Have you ever wanted to create a button that sends an email, or posts on social media, simply by pressing it? Well, you are in luck!

The project is so easy that you literally don't have to do anything. Simply copy the code in the attachment and paste it here, and set up an IFTTT account.

1) Create an account and press Create A Recipe

2) Press this and select particle

3) Choose the trigger as new event published

4) Fill in the information about your device

5) Then click that and Choose email(or Facebook, Twitter etc. for social media posts by button)

6) You can see various options for call-on actions according to what you selected in the previous step.

7) Select what information you want in the mail, all should work just as well.

8) Simply create the recipe to experience the magic.

When you push the button, the inbuilt led will glow for 5 seconds and an email will be sent!!

Email_sender

int led = D7; // Uses inbuilt LED
int pushButton = D1; // Push button is connected to D1

// This routine runs only once upon reset
void setup() 
{
  pinMode(led, OUTPUT); // Initialize D7 pin as output
  pinMode(pushButton, INPUT_PULLUP); 
  // Initialize D1 pin as input with an internal pull-up resistor
}

// This routine loops forever
void loop() 
{
  int pushButtonState; 

  pushButtonState = digitalRead(pushButton);

  if(pushButtonState == LOW)
  { // If we push down on the push button
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);  // Turn ON the LED
    Spark.publish("pushButtonState","Pressed",60,PRIVATE);
    // Add a delay to prevent getting tons of emails from IFTTT
    delay(5000); 
  }
  else
  {
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);   // Turn OFF the LED 
  }

}

Credits

Yatin Agarwal

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Button Operated Email Sender

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Credits

Yatin Agarwal

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