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Hi guys, I'm looking to automate the blinds in my bedroom for fun. I've got a stepper motor which attaches to the chain of my blinds to roll them up or down. I was hoping to use the ESP8266 to do this. Initially I was using an Arduino Mega but since people have worked out how to flash code onto the ESP, the Arduino is redundant for me. I have had some initial success with the ESP, managing to flash some code onto it and get the wifi LED example working. What I would really like to do is have an app on my android phone with the buttons "close blind" and "open blind" and perhaps an indicator showing the current status of the blind (whether they are open or closed). I would like the messages to go though an internet server so that I can use the app from anywhere. It looks like the website 'thinkgspeak' may do what I want and I've also seen some people using 'pushbullet'. However, I have not been able to find any example code for either that works easily using the Arduino IDE. So firstly, am I going about this the correct way with thingspeak or pushbullet (ie. will they do what I want?) and secondly, can anyone direct me to a resource with some example code for Arduino IDE that communicates with one of these websites? Thanks in advance!