Slack Gateway for Reading and Writing Microcontroller Values

Gateway running on Heroku for routing Slash command requests to Particle.io and Blynk.cc devices.

Usage

From Slack:

/particle on
/particle off
/particle value

/blynk on
/blynk off
/blynk value

Setup

Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/pambrose/slack-gateway.git
$ cd slack-gateway

Install Heroku CLI with:

$ brew install heroku

Create Heroku app with:

$ heroku create app-name

Configuration

Slack

The Slack /blynk command is mapped to a POST on https://slack-gateway.herokuapp.com/blynk and the /particle command is mapped to a POST on https://slack-gateway.herokuapp.com/particle.

Photon

The sketch for the Photon sets the LED to D0.

Blynk

The Blynk device is a SparkFun Blynk Board. The LED in this example is the onboard LED at D5.

Heroku

Assign slack.token, particle.token, and blynk.token values as Heroku Config Vars or in application.conf.

Deployment

Deploy the gateway server to Heroku with:

$ mvn heroku:deploy

Debugging

View the request params of a /particle or /blynk Slack command with:

/particle debug

/blynk debug

View the Heroku logs with:

$ heroku logs -t