Webhook. . . anyone using it?

[apostolakisl]

I have been given an I/O device that incorporates webhook. I know nothing about webhook. . . hadn't even heard of it until now. Anyone know how to use it? It is supposed to allow the I/O device to post it's status to a webhook server whenever user defined criteria are met. It seems to work kind of like email but it doesn't go through an email server and functions much faster (essentially realtime).

After doing some Googling, I am not really understanding how in the world this is supposed to work. Everything that comes up on my Google searches seems to take for granted that you already know damn near everything about webhook already. . . which I don't!

Looking forward to comments.

 

[tmbrown97]

Never heard of it either - found this to be an interesting primer:
http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/Introduction-to-Webhooks-and-An-Evangelist.html

 

[az1324]

What's the I/O board? It seems like most of the webhooks.org content is down, but it seems to be in use at various places across the web. Key point being that you need a server that speaks webhook.

 

[apostolakisl]

What's the I/O board? It seems like most of the webhooks.org content is down, but it seems to be in use at various places across the web. Key point being that you need a server that speaks webhook.

It's a pre-production board that I have been asked to test. I can't really say more than that per their request. But they put a webhook function on it which I am trying to play with.

It would be nice if there were a webhook application that I could run on a pc in my LAN to receive the webhooks and then execute other tasks locally.

 

[az1324]

webcontrol v2? h34r: