Hey there. I just ordered my particle photon, and Im in the process of making a baby/sound monitor. So the way it’ll work is, I got this webpage ( www.myowndomain.com ) which has 2 files. Index.php and update.php. Index.php reads 1 value from a database and outputs it in html and plays a sound if val…

Thanks for the help. But I found a much simpler approach with TCPClient. It is my own on-site server. Gonna try to close the thread if that’s a thing :wink:

Check out this post. There are links to 2 github repos by @rickkas7 which demonstrate streaming audio with the Photon over the internet. [image] Sub-millisecond timer output compare interrupt Firmware I’ve been toying with an Electron for a while; all going well - thanks …

Thanks for the reply ninjatil. But Im not looking to stream audio. Im just looking to update my mysql database by running a script on my server. I just need the photon to go to my webpage, like you would in a normal browser. This is the code Im toying with to get it to work if that gives any indicat…

Is this an HTTPS or HTTP address? If the former you’ll need to use webhooks - however even with HTTP I’d also go that way. But if you can run your own server on that site, you could have a look at these two approaches

[image] lithdk: request.hostname = " MYWEBSITE.MYDOMAIN.com/babyalarm/update.php?decibel=99 "; request.port = 80; request.path = ""; request.body = ""; http.post(request, response, headers); delay(5000); In addition to what @ScruffR says, why do you have the path within the hostname? Why n…

[image] lithdk: Gonna try to close the thread if that’s a thing If you got the solution you can mark the post that shows the solution by clicking this icon [image] at the bottom of that post

Oh and @ScruffR asked about HTTPS because it’s not (reasonably, or easily) possible to make HTTPS requests directly from the Photon… for that you should use a webhook. But if local on your own network, and you don’t care about data security while in-transit, then the HTTPClient library will work fin…

Baby monitor over the internet! web client help?

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Check out this post. There are links to 2 github repos by @rickkas7 which demonstrate streaming audio with the Photon over the internet.

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