WiFly shield & Arduino board HTTP request

Wireless & IoT
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Hi Guys,

At University in our group project unit we are creating a security system using both the WiFly shield and Arduino prototyping platform. Our product will be to monitor an object. We have a box that inside has an IR sensor that if the door is opened an alarm will be set off. The alarm status needs to be updated wirelessly to a website. We have all the code so far to set the alarm / to set it off however we don’t know much about connecting to a wifi network with the WiFly and creating a HTTP request. All we need to be able to do is make a request to a webpage that will then run its scripts to change the state of the alarm. For example all that needs to be loaded is:

http://www.****.co.uk/redesign/alarm_raised.php

Can anybody point me in the right direction as to what we need to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance :D,

Dan

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You should get the Sparkfun WiFly library: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=25216

Look at the WiFly_WebClient example included with the library, it should do exactly what you are looking for.