Plug-and-Play IoT with dweet and freeboard
Send with dweet
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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
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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
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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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Wrap-Up
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