IOS Shortcut button to particle cloud event

Use apple shortcuts to create a push button interface for your particle device. Pressing a button will generate a webhook and thus an event on the particle cloud. This event can be subscribed by your particle device to do your bidding.

open shortcuts and create a shortcut with "get contents of" URL.

Enter the following URL, authorization, name, data. Use your desired event name and data. Data can be a variable from your iphone.

For Authorization, enter Bearer XXXXXXXYOURTOKENHERE

Your token can be found here. Generate one with no expiration.

https://docs.particle.io/reference/cloud-apis/access-tokens/

Once properly configured your event and data will appear in the particle console.

https://console.particle.io