The aim of this tutorial is to control sprinkler from his smartphone anywhere without SSH connection.
In the previous tutorial, I explain how to control sprinkler from command line directly by a daemon service on the Raspberry. In order to be able to access of the raspberry from internet we need to expose an API via an HTTP Server. Finally, we will be able to control sprinkler with simple HTTP request routing from anywhere.
Create HTTP server
It’s easy to create a simple HTTP Server in Python with Flask. I used a basic authentification, it’s the minimal to implement if you want to expose this API everywhere. In addition, all ZoneControl implement all functions we need to expose from the server http controller. So we can continue to use the daemon and the http server in parallel. You need to
TODO create Flask and Swagger
git clone
start the server
See more into the readme
Call API from smartphone
We can now control the sprinkler with simple HTTP Request. At first, I was wondering if I have to code an mobile application (IOS, android… ), and after thinking about it, I said to myself: is there a simple application we can send request like curl or postman but on mobile. So I found the perfect application on Iphone here It exists a couple of equivalent application on Iphone, Android…
Note: If you want to access to your HTTP server outside your LAN, don’t forget to forward port into your router.
So I’ve just set all request into this application !
TODO screenshot samples.
