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Plug-and-Play IoT with dweet and freeboard

Two services from Bug Labs are combined: 
  • dweet for transportation, 
  • freeboard for display.

Send with dweet

A dweet is like a tweet but for data. The sender is called a thing and the messages dweets.

All dweets are public and shown at this page called See. To make a thing private, a lock can be purchased for USD1 a month. This lock allows to implement the alert service.

Storage is provided with 500 dweets for up to 24 hours. If a thing hasn't be used for 24 hours, then all the dweets are deleted. 

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There's no setup, no registration, no key. Dweet provides a full page called Play with interactive examples for each function: send and read dweets, alert, lock.

When sending a dweet, an acknowledge receipt is sent back. Other basic operation includes reading the latest tweets or downloading all of them. 
{"this":"succeeded","by":"dweeting","the":"dweet","with":{"thing":"dweetCC3200weather&light=32805.0&press=1021.0&temp=24.3&hum=62.9","created":"2015-09-08T10:59:29.521Z","content":{}}}
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Visualise with freeboard

freeboard adopts a minimalistic approach for its interface and the graphics it displays. This approach makes the service really easy to use.

freeboard is closely integrated with dweet, with a fast-track procedure to build a dashboard.

Go to the page See and find your thing. Click on it to visualise the data. 

Click again on the Create a Custom Dashboard button to create the dashboard automatically.

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With this procedure, the dashboard shown on the right took me less than 1 minute to build. 

By default, the dashboards are public. Making them private is a paid option.


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Now, there's the standard procedure. 

Open freeboard and select first a data-source. For dweet, just provide the name of the thing.
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Add a pane with an optional title.

Finally, add a widget. Select the type and define the options. Selecting the data is easy as all the options are displayed interactively.
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Conclusion

I really like the ease of use of this solution and the integration between dweet and freeboard. The dashboard was really easy to implement. 

Some advanced options aren't mainstream, like the Simple freeboard data storage with Google Sheets.

Programming an action, like sending a message if a condition is met, and managing security are paid options. 

The storage to up to 500 dweets or 24 hours is a great benefit.

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Pros

  • Great documentation for dweet
  • Great integration between dweet and freeboard
  • Nice and easy interface for freeboard
  • Up to 500 messages or 24 hours storage

Cons

  • Privacy is a paid option

Wrap-Up

  • Plug-and-Play solution
  • Up to 500 messages or 24 hours storage
  • Privacy is a paid option

Links

  • Bug Labs website
  • dweet website 
  • freeboard website 
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