Courier Live: Controlling IoT using the Webhook Provider

Courier Live: Controlling IoT using the Webhook Provider

Sep 8, 2020

Aydrian and Riley use the Courier Webhook provider to connect to a BlinkStick Square when a notification is sent. They walk through setting up a Courier route and websocket event.
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01:22 - What's a BlinkStick Square?
02:29 - Demo of BlinkStick server
04:03 - Updating a notification to use the Webhook provider
08:12 - Exploring the Webhook provider docs for profile setup
09:47 - Walking through the server code
13:36 - Walking through the client code
15:36 - Creating a courier endpoint
22:15 - Updating the recipient profile with the Webhook url
27:28 - Handling the alert event
36:07 - Did it work? Sending a notification.
37:19 - Demoing the new Send Tab in the Courier Notification Designer
41:45 - Viewing the Courier log for the notification

Aydrian Howard, Developer Advocate: https://twitter.com/itsaydrian
Riley Napier, Sr. Software Engineer

BlinkStick Square: https://www.blinkstick.com/products/blinkstick-square
Courier Webhook Provider: https://docs.courier.com/docs/webhook-integration
BlinkStick Server: https://github.com/aydrian/blinkstick-server
BlinkStick Client: https://github.com/aydrian/blinkstick-client

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This video was recorded live at https://twitch.tv/trycourier on September 2, 2020. Follow to be notified whenever we go live.