Can I make web interface for hardware events?

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Posted at 2015-10-03 by MosabWadea

Hello everyone...
I am new to this forum, I hope I can add more value here.

I have a question regarding a project I am working on.
I am developing a remote controller using an ESP8266 and interfacing with some simple electronics to my hardware I want to control. I want to interface with the user using a webpage obviously.
In the beginning I started to do the development using the esplorer tool and lua scripting. But that was very not helpful and can't give me all the features I wanted. Then I found this amazing javascript interpreter that may give me what I need. So I have some questions for you guys.

I want to control a wall-mounted device that controls my AC. The device has some interfacing buttons (power, fan, tempUp and tempDown).
I want to make the device controlled by the web interface as well as the device interface itself.
developing the webpage is easy and I could follow the tutorials easily. But is it possible to update the content of the web interface when a button is clicked? I mean if someone turned on the AC, when I go to the webpage I can see the status as "ON" and if someone changed the temperature I can keep track of how many times he clicked the button and update the temp variable in the controller?

To sum up, I want to make the variables for the webpage controlled by the hardware as well as the user from the PC.

BTW I made all the interfacing hardware and I just need to program my 8266.

Thanks

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Posted at 2015-10-03 by MosabWadea

P.S. I don't need to update the page while it is still open..

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Posted at 2015-10-04 by @allObjects

...check this parallel conversation..., that's where the Keypad stuff keeps coming... (btw, you can edit posted entries).

'Final', 'moduled' Keypad code is discussed (and available) in Keypad - bought or DIY - controlled directly by Espruino conversation.

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Posted at 2015-10-05 by @gfwilliams

Looks like the other thread has got all the posts in it. Shall I just kill this one?

I think 'Interfacing' is ok for what you're asking,