It has been a while since I last touched Particle. I am to build a gate/door opener with a Photon. My part is only the parking barrier + controller (Photon). The logic to open the gate will be handled by another programmer.
My progress is Photon can already read RFID number. A long range reader is connected to Photon via Wiegand connection. And it can trigger a relay.
That programmer said the logic “which card can go in” will be handled by him. He said that I need to ask his server for the permission whether this card is allowed to go inside or not.
I am not a web developer/programmer. What does he mean by this?
Can I assume I will need to use HttpClient library to do this?
For example ipaddress:port/open-gate?id=123456789?loc=2
http_request_t request;
http_response_t response;
request.hostname = ADDRESS;
request.port = PORT;
request.path = "/open-gate?id=123456789?loc=2";
http.get(request, response, NULL);
And then I check the response status, if it is 1 then open the gate?
Or maybe it is better I use webhooks? Or is there any other simpler/better way to do this?