From tyczj on Hackster.io:
If you ever wanted something other than plain old landscaping lights that are only one color then this project might interest you.
This project grow out of me wanting to experiment with Google Cloud’s IoT core while starting to create/build my own smart home system for my house. The first part of this project is setting up and account with Google Cloud and enabling App Engine, IoT Core and Datastore. I am not going to go into the details of doing that but you can find the documentation here.
App Engine: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/
IoT Core: https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/
Datastore: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
You should be well within the free tier with this project so there should be no cost to you for using Google Cloud.
Now lets get into some code
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