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My idea is to have an arduino board that will communicate with the browser.

  • I want the arduino board to react (eg. blink led) when user is connected to a certain website.
  • User inputs on the board ( eg. press button) will affect the browser (eg. close tab, switch tab).

I started learning and creating simple examples using chrome extensions tutorial. However, since I am not myself a skilled programmer, I'd like to know if it is possible to achieve those things aforementioned.

How I imagine it right now it will be:

  • Chrome extension writes into a json. Arduino reads data from json -> blink led.
  • Arduino writes values in json. Chrome extension can automatically see changes in the file and react accordingly -> close tab( so, without having a user re-installing each time the extension).

Are this scenarios possible? Which would be the easiest way to achieve this?

Ciprian Amaritei
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I would recommend to take a look at firebase. That's a really easy real-time database with a lot of good tutorials (even some by Google).

Then you should use a library like this one on your Arduino. (there are some examples to look at) And in your chrome extension you can fetch the values from the database really easy again.

Datagrammar
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