Reddit reviews PARTICLE| Particle Maker Kit | Photon Wi-Fi with Headers | Reprogrammable IoT Development Kit for Prototyping | Scale Internet of Things Products | Cloud Access | Great for Electronics Projects
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POWERFUL INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE: This tiny development kit was designed for creating connected electronics projects, ideally for prototyping and scaling Internet of Things products. It includes embedded security from hardware to cloud and access to Particle’s Device Cloud platform.DEVICE CLOUD ACCESS: All Particle hardware is designed from the ground up to work with the Device Cloud, which you receive complimentary for the first 100 devices. The Device Cloud is a powerful set of tools and infrastructure to build, connect, and manage your IoT fleet. Welcome to the world’s largest IoT developer community, over 150,000 developers and counting!SPECS & FEATURES: Quick and easy as it is Arduino compatible and requires zero software setup to start programming. Particle’s Photon Maker Kit comes with all the components you need to start building internet enabled projects including: Photon with Headers, USB Micro B Cable, Flex antenna, Mini Breadboard, Proto-board, Deluxe Jumper Wire Pack and Battery holder. This Photon Maker kit contains enough accessories to keep you busy, enabling you to develop IoT skills with ease and convenience.PHOTON’S ECOSYSTEM: Included is your access to Particle’s comprehensive set of development tools that are designed to let you build and create whether you’re an embedded engineer, web developer, Arduino enthusiast or IoT entrepreneur. You’ll be able to write your firmware in our web or local (desktop) IDE.MACHINE COMMUNICATION: Small microcontroller dev boards are nothing new. The technology to turn a hat, belt buckle, or bicycle into something that receives data and communicates with other devices has been around for more than a decade! Particle is making it all easier with this Internet of Things Maker Kit!
I appreciate all the comments and ideas. They are all a bit above my pay grade however. But, I can learn. I am thinking of getting this 80 piece Particle Maker Kit from Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HZFS0PE?aaxitk=pneNT3rT3XhgMcS0LMxLmw&pd_rd_i=B01HZFS0PE&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=5582544217303223519&pf_rd_s=desktop-sx-top-slot&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_i=esp8266&hsa_cr_id=7664064650501#feature-bullets-btf
to get started learning about building IoT devices. It doesn’t say in the description that it is an ESP8266, but when I search that term, this comes up. I’m not sure if this will meet my original objective, but it sounds like fun. Any opinions or experiences with Particle?
As far as my original post - I failed to mention the track I was on that I thought was going to get me where I was going. I took a standard outdoor motion spot and covered the photocell so it always thought it was dark. I disconnected the parallel connection of motion sensor from the light. I was going to hook the motion detector in series to 1 channel on a 2 channel Sonoff, with that channel set to ON on power up with no output. When the motion detector closed the circuit and restored power to the Sonoff, I hoped that would trigger an IFTTT applet with the trigger ‘When Sonoff Channel 1 turns on’ and action ‘Send Notification’. Then connect the second channel to the light, power up state OFF on power up, and with a combination of IFTTT and Stringify, turn the light on only ‘if nighttime’ and off after 10 minute timer. As you can tell, I don’t want the light going on during the day. It’s a long story..
I really thought I had it figured out, but the Sonoff doesn’t seem to send a signal of Turned On after power up. All I really need is an IFTTT compatible device, (in place of Channel 1 on the Sonoff), that could trigger IFTTT on power up. Then I would have exactly what I want with a PIR that is meant to be outdoor. The only other possible flaw in that plan is the potential for false positives, etc. during daylight with a PIR that is designed for use in the dark. (As mentioned by @idetectanerd.)
Long post, and not sure if I explained it well. Thanks again for your input.