About:

This project uses an IFTTT applet which uses Gmail as a Trigger and GraspIO as the Action to display the subject of a new email received in your Gmail inbox on Cloudio's OLED.
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What you’ll need:

  • Cloudio & Raspberry Pi setup

Accounts/ software/applications

  • GraspIO Studio mobile app
  • An IFTTT account
  • Google account on IFTTT
  • GraspIO account on IFTTT

How this works:

This project uses an IFTTT applets as described below -

IFTTT Trigger – New email received in Gmail inbox
IFTTT Action – Cloudio displays the new email's subject on its OLED screen.

The 2 main steps here are -

Step 1: Configuring Cloudio to run as an IFTTT Action
This involves uploading an IFTTT (Action) project to your board.

Step 2: Creating and deploying the IFTTT applet(s)
This step creates an IFTTT applet that uses

  • Gmail (New email received) as the Trigger
  • GraspIO Cloudio (configured to display text on the OLED screen) as the Action

How-to Video:

Steps:

Step 1: Configuring Cloudio to work as an IFTTT Action

For this, create a project with an IFTTT block set to Action mode.
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Upload this project to Cloudio.
Your Cloudio is now configured to run as an Action when invoked by an IFTTT applet.

Step 2: Creating the Gmail-GraspIO applet on IFTTT

On IFTTT, create a new applet.
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For the 'this' (Trigger), section, select Gmail.

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Select the trigger type from the list
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For the 'then' section, select GraspIO.

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Now, select the 'Display text on OLED' action so you can display the subject on Cloudio's OLED screen.
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Select the text, and the ingredient as shown below.
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Your applet is now ready. Press Finish to run this applet.
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Running the project

After the applet is deployed, every time you receive a new email in your Gmail inbox, Cloudio will display the email's subject on its OLED screen as illustrated below.
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