- Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:18 am
#170666
Hi all,
I wanted to give the forum readers a heads up about a data channel service that we've been working on. Check it out here: http://data.sparkfun.com.
I was thrilled by how easy Wunderground was to work with and then let down by the complexities of using other services. So we created Phant (as in elephants don't forget) to make it super easy for people to push data out to the cloud.
For example, if you have a remote float sensor monitoring the water level of a de-watering pit (as we do in the new SparkFun building) and you want to report the water level every few minutes, where do you push the data? I'm a hardware guy. I don't know how to setup a server to save my life, so data.sparkfun.com fills the gap. All you do is create a stream, record the keys, then have your remote sensor concatenate a string.
http://data.sparkfun.com/input/Jxyjr7Dm ... e%20forum!
(go ahead, you know you want to click it!)
You can see the stream ID [Jxyjr7DmxwTD5dG1D1Kv] and the private key [gzgnB4VazkIg7GN1g1qA]. I don't know how to maintain a SQL database but I know how to get my Arduino to stick some strings together and then post it to HTTP (via cellular, wifi, or ethernet).
Then you can see the resulting data on the public stream: http://data.sparkfun.com/streams/Jxyjr7DmxwTD5dG1D1Kv
It's all free, open source goodness so if you don't trust us, need more than 50MB of space or faster than 10s update rates you can deploy Phant on your own server.
You're the first group to really hear about it outside the walls of SparkFun so we'd be thrilled if you kicked the tires and let us know what you think. We want to keep it simple (stupid) but what could be better?
Cheers,
-Nathan
I wanted to give the forum readers a heads up about a data channel service that we've been working on. Check it out here: http://data.sparkfun.com.
I was thrilled by how easy Wunderground was to work with and then let down by the complexities of using other services. So we created Phant (as in elephants don't forget) to make it super easy for people to push data out to the cloud.
For example, if you have a remote float sensor monitoring the water level of a de-watering pit (as we do in the new SparkFun building) and you want to report the water level every few minutes, where do you push the data? I'm a hardware guy. I don't know how to setup a server to save my life, so data.sparkfun.com fills the gap. All you do is create a stream, record the keys, then have your remote sensor concatenate a string.
http://data.sparkfun.com/input/Jxyjr7Dm ... e%20forum!
(go ahead, you know you want to click it!)
You can see the stream ID [Jxyjr7DmxwTD5dG1D1Kv] and the private key [gzgnB4VazkIg7GN1g1qA]. I don't know how to maintain a SQL database but I know how to get my Arduino to stick some strings together and then post it to HTTP (via cellular, wifi, or ethernet).
Then you can see the resulting data on the public stream: http://data.sparkfun.com/streams/Jxyjr7DmxwTD5dG1D1Kv
It's all free, open source goodness so if you don't trust us, need more than 50MB of space or faster than 10s update rates you can deploy Phant on your own server.
You're the first group to really hear about it outside the walls of SparkFun so we'd be thrilled if you kicked the tires and let us know what you think. We want to keep it simple (stupid) but what could be better?
Cheers,
-Nathan