IOT API Basics For Beginners

This tutorial introduces API (application Programming Interface) basics for beginners. IOT devices are controlled using APIs with them main API protocols being HTTP and MQTT.
Most of us are very familiar with user Interfaces as they are used every day. When you read and write your emails you are using a user interface designed for people to send and receive emails.
An Email API is simply an interface designed to be used by an application and not a user to send and receive emails.
We look are what APIs are and how you use them with a demo test API that runs in node-red.
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Using HTTP APIs
Using MQTT APIs

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[arishy]

A master piece of work. Magically, you managed to show how to combine different frameworks under the "ambarella" of node-red. It shows how deep your node-red understanding can take you; to do anything with node-red.
Your contribution to this wondaful tool is remarkable Thank you Steve.

[user]

Wonderful Sir, you are awesome, thank you very much

[shekharsharma]

Sir, your explanation is very simple and can be understood by a beginner .Definitely you have gained good knowledge and faced hard time 🙏🏻👌🏻

[mbeliatis]

Hi Steve very nice set of videos, could I ask you to make one video for OPC-UA server in Node-Red how to set up and operate one server for IIoT. Thank you