Here's an interesting technique we wanted to show you.
Mateusz Olszowy, on of our engineers in Cisco's Polish Technical Assistance Center (TAC), put together an application that uses a Raspberry Pi and the Spark API to create a web service to controls devices on the Internet of Things. In this video, you can see him using the web interface to create commands that controls the lights:
Mateusz describes what he's doing as chatting with lights. His explanation of what's happening: Thanks to very straightforward documentation on developer.ciscospark.com I was able to setup my first integration within minutes! This inspired me to create a webservice on a Raspberry Pi which parses any Spark message sent via outgoing webhooks. With every message posted in a room, the Spark API REST service notifies the Raspberry Pi and the signal gets triggered on pins (General Purpose Input/Output) to steer the relay that connects or disconnects the electrical circuit. The project became a nice fusion of Cisco Spark and Internet of Things.
This is a simple example but it shows the power of these interfaces and how quickly you can create a solution.
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