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I was just wondering how I would create a completely custom wifi alarm clock, what are the things I would need in terms of IoT? I would want to control it via a custom built ios app. I am trying to model it based of the lifx system. I do know I would require an API, just not sure about everything required.

Btw I am a 14 year old just learning things, any advice would be highly appreciated!

Thanks, Amman

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    first you have to define clearly what a wifi alarm clock is and how it behaves
    – jsotola
    Jan 18, 2019 at 7:28
  • Hi Amman, please add a bit more information of what parts exactly you want to use and what you want to achieve. Please add those information with edit. You can also take the tour to learn more about good questions on this site.
    – Helmar ♦
    Jan 20, 2019 at 12:32

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The fundamental structure of the LiFX system, and roughly speaking, most of these IoT systems is as follows:

Device <-> Cloud <-> User

The device (the alarm clock) establishes and maintains a connection to a custom server in the cloud, informing the cloud of its state (connected, on/off, time). The cloud presents an API which user applications (eg. the iOS app) can use to query or command the cloud. A query might be "list my clocks" and a command might be "set time on clock 1 to 12:00". The cloud decodes the message, figures out which device to send a message to and sends the message.

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