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Be alerted of new comments on aDEV.to article using the Azure Cloud ☁️

Consists of an application running on the Azure Cloud and another on a device to detect new messages posted on a DEV.to article and alert you by reading out the comment. If the device is a PI, LED will indicate new comments.

• Use the Azure Cloud to alert you when a new comment is posted on your DEV.to post by polling the DEV.to api.
• When a new comment is detected the Azure Cloud will send a message to a selected device registered on the Azure IoT Hub. This message will contain the username along with the comment. The device reads out the username and comment using a text to speech engine.
• As a bonus if the device is a raspberry PI an LED will blink while the comment is being read.
• The method of sending messages from the Azure Cloud to IoT Hub device is through functions provided by the Python Azure IoT Hub SDK.
• The application is able to route messages using MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) if this option is configured in the ini file of apps setup.

✔️DEV.to API.
✔️ Azure Linux Virtual Machines.
✔️ Azure IoT Hub.
✔️ Python Requests Module.
✔️ Python Text to Speech Engine.
✔️ Raspberry PI.

If using MQTT:
✔️ Mosquitto MQTT broker.
✔️ Paho MQTT.

• Python pip3 -sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• Python Requests Module -pip install requests
• Beautiful Soup -pip install bs4
• Python Azure IoT Hub library -pip install azure-iot-hub
• Python text-to-speech -sudo apt-get install espeakpip3 install pyttsx3
• Paho MQTT -pip install paho-mqtt.
• Configure the Cloud .ini file

• Python Azure IoT Hub SDK -pip install azure-iot-device
• Python text-to-speech -sudo apt-get install espeakpip3 install pyttsx3
• gpiozero (for GPIO control if device is a raspberry pi ) -sudo apt install python-gpiozero
• Paho MQTT -pip install paho-mqtt.
• Configure the device .ini file

• Azure explorer -https://github.com/Azure/azure-iot-explorer/releases
• Azure CLI -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/

• Use better robot voice
• AI processing of comments
• Do more cool stuff with PI interaction