Introduction IoT Platform Adafruit.IO & ESP8266

This time the test will be performed on the well-known Adafruit.IO platform.

What is Adafruit.IO? It is a solution for the construction of applications IoT created by Adafruit Industries, the well-known open-source hardware marketer, have created this platform for the internet of things based on platforms known as Arduino, Raspberry pi, ESP8266, Intel Galileo, Serial devices And Wifi among others. The Communication API is based on MQTT client with Adafruit servers. In a few minutes you can create a high quality dashboard.

In this case we will perform the Tests with Module ESP8266 in the following tutorial we will indicate step by step installations and configurations for tests with the platform Adafruit.IO.

Official website: io.adafruit.com

Official website: adafruit.com

Tutorial Platform IoT Adafruit.IO & ESP8266 12E Part 1/2

Quick introduction to Adafruit.IO
Create account at Adafruit.IO
Download libraries and examples
Revision of Arduino IDE code

Arduino IDE

To do the test we have taken 2 examples of github and an example has been created that performs the reading of (LDR) and control of (GPIO 04) using the protocol MQTT, since none of the examples performed both functions is created example Download available below, it is required to have the AIO-KEY and in Username.

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Dashboard Adafruit.IO

The Arduino code, generates the Feed “photocell” associated with the LDR that performs the reading to the ADC0.

The “onoff” feed must be created on the platform in the Feeds tab, the “onoff” feed is assigned the on / off control of the led diode assigned to the GPIO04.

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The following widgets have been assigned:

Toggle: for the control of the GPIO (Led), sends the Strings “ON” – “OFF” to the ESP8266 module.
Gauge: Allows the display of the value of the ADC0, configured from 0 to 200 given the configuration and conditioning of the ADC.
Chart Line: Graph the value of the ADC0.