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ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

You're reading from   ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you master ESP8266 functionality

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288102
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 2. Your First ESP8266 Projects 3. More ESP8266 Functions 4. Using MicroPython on the ESP8266 5. Cloud Data Monitoring 6. Interacting with Web Services 7. Machine to Machine Interactions Index

Monitoring sensor data from a cloud dashboard


In this recipe, we will be looking at how to use a graphical interface to monitor the data logged by the ESP8266. One of the main reasons why sensor data is posted online is so that you can easily monitor the data over time. This is facilitated by cloud dashboards that take the posted data and convert it to meaningful graphical presentations. The graphical presentations guide us in the decisions and actions we take pertaining to the system that is being monitored. We will use dweet.io and freeboard.io to demonstrate how cloud dashboards work.

Getting ready

Set up the hardware the same way you did in the, Connecting sensors to your ESP8266 board ercipe and upload the code for posting sensor data to dweet.io.

Note

That is the code we used in the, Posting the sensor data online recipe.

No configuration will be required in dweet.io for you to get a graphical view of the posted data. On the other hand, you will need to set up a few things in freeboard...

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