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I was just wondering how I would create a completely custom wifi alarm clock, what are the things I would need in terms of IoT? I would want to control it via a custom built ios app. I am trying to model it based of the lifx system. I do know I would require an API, just not sure about everything required.

Btw I am a 14 year old just learning things, any advice would be highly appreciated!

Thanks, Amman

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The fundamental structure of the LiFX system, and roughly speaking, most of these IoT systems is as follows:

Device <-> Cloud <-> User

The device (the alarm clock) establishes and maintains a connection to a custom server in the cloud, informing the cloud of its state (connected, on/off, time). The cloud presents an API which user applications (eg. the iOS app) can use to query or command the cloud. A query might be "list my clocks" and a command might be "set time on clock 1 to 12:00". The cloud decodes the message, figures out which device to send a message to and sends the message.

Heath Raftery
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