Electric Imp Shield --> Prowl

Development Boards Arduino
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I am trying to send a HTTP request to Prowl for an IOS notification using the Electric Imp Arduino shield and planner software, but I’m struggling with the code. php should be able to do it but I was wondering if anyone had example code where they have successfully done this.

Thanks

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Wait a minute, I was just looking for an answer to a question deliberately being avoided by the IMP people - I know I am not helping you in the specific code issue so apologize but you have indirectly answered my quest:

Are you telling us that there is NO WAY to make the imp generate the URL directly to your web server and instead all of this has to go via their cloud?

In other words, can the IMP NOT do http://192.168.99.7/update.php?$X where that X variable has the value which one needs to update the MySQL table with?

Then what good is the UART and SPI on the IMP if one can’t read those and directly output them to an IP address?

~B

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I to have had a similar experience, don’t let the cute logo, or so friendly looking SD card form factor fool you, this is not a LEGO simple picaxe type thing, this is a product for HARDCORE PROGRAMMERS ONLY, I saw an example of turning something on and off remotely that writing code in 3 Language on 3 platorms. A hobbyist/amateur CANNOT connect an LED to output pin on this board, go to a URL and turn on that LED. You may need 50 lines of java code running on a remote server and a 3rd party host if you want to hook a switch to the board and go to a URL and see something like “The Switch is Open”, or “The Switch is Closed”.

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Update, I got a message from Hugof one the brainiacs who make this, a simpler interface is a work in progress he wants to call an “agent”. Thanks hugof

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Ok so have you tested said “agent” and is it usable? I don’t mean the ultimate utopia where code examples actually work and promised functionality is real. Not at all - that’s dreaming. However I do mean whether the “agent” can be made to work in exchange of some reasonable fiddling; undocumented stuff… well you know the drill but at the end does it actually work?