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TMS makes accessing cloud services from Raspberry Pi a piece of cake
Friday, November 13, 2015
The world of IoT opens fascinating & innovative capabilities to steer & sense the physical world from small programmable devices like the Raspberry Pi. It becomes even more interesting when this can be connected to cloud services. Imagine a device that unlocks a door at times controlled by a Google Calendar, a device monitoring noise levels in a room and sending a push notification to a mobile phone when a level is exceeded, a device automatically controlling a step motor with data retrieved from a Google Sheet, a device that counts people passing a door and logging this data in a DropBox data file, ... and so much more...All this is nowadays not only possible, but it is also cheap to make and easy to write software for with the Pascal programming language.
With respect to writing the software that connects embedded apps to all kinds of popular cloud services, the all new TMS LCL Cloud Pack offers numerous easy to use components that seamlessly interact with these cloud services. It offers access to all popular cloud storage services, social media, calendering services, push notification services and more... See full list here.
In our lab, we had fun making a sample app that shows the number of visitors on our website that is retrieved with the Google Analytics realtime data API on a quad 7 segment LED with only a few lines of code.
In order to get started writing cloud-connected apps for the Raspberry Pi, all you need to do is download & install Lazarus v1.5 on your Raspberry Pi and then download & install the TMS LCL Cloud Pack. After install, over 30 new components are available for you. Then register for an application key & secret at your favorite cloud service and use our new Access Token generator app for Windows & Mac OS-X we created especially for TMS LCL Cloud Pack and have it generate the access token and export the token to your Raspberry Pi. With this mechanism, your embedded app can connect to cloud services without requiring any user interaction on the device for authentication & authorization for using a service. Once this is done, you're ready to let the cloud service component of your choice start consuming or producing data for the cloud service.
Finally, note that with Lazarus and our TMS LCL Cloud Pack, you're not limited to Raspberry Pi only. You can develop the prototype of the Raspberry Pi app on a Windows, Mac OS-X, Linux machine or can make full apps for these operating systems as well.
We hope you'll have as much fun creating this brand new type of applications as we had developing TMS LCL Cloud Pack and we're thrilled to learn about what your innovative apps will be!
Bruno Fierens
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