Data Logging with the Internet of Things (Adafruit IO)

This video summarizes transitioning from an Adafruit Feather MO Adalogger to a Feather MO with Wifi. The transition will allow me to post soil and air temperature data to Adafruit IO-- a user-friendly Internet of Things Platform for posting and hosting environmental data online. Adafruit IO can be accessed using the Feather MO WiFi board programmed using the Arduino IDE.
Links of Interest:
Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi - ATSAMD21 + ATWINC1500
www.adafruit.com/product/3010
Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi with ATWINC1500 - Learning Guide
learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-f...
Adafruit IO
io.adafruit.com/
Live Experiment Dashboard (may require account creation and login):
io.adafruit.com/biod101/dashb...
Soil Monitoring Experiments Playlist
• Soil Monitoring Experi...
The sketches referenced in this video are built on the examples shared by Adafruit and others. These are posted at this link:
drive.google.com/file/d/18USs...

[@Aragorn450]

Many years ago (9?), I set up an Arduino with one of the first Wifi boards from Espressif to log temperatures in the basement of a house my mom's family had in Wisconsin and was renting out. At the time, there weren't any libraries for that Wifi module that I could find, so I used AT commands to connect to the AP, parsing the responses, with basic error handing and retries. Adafruit also wasn't doing their IO service at the time either (and I didn't know about it at all until your videos, so thanks!), so I used ThingSpeak, which is now owned by MathWorks. And of course the connection was HTTP and I used their IP address for posting since I wasn't wanting to deal with DNS... Again, using AT commands to do everything, including the request to send the data to ThingSpeak's servers.
Anyway, point being, it was a PAIN. But it did work and stayed working without any service for years, although we might have had to reboot it once... Fast forward to now and man, it looks SO much easier! Some learning curve for the APIs and such but I would I have killed for this type of system back then!

[@ModestMaker]

I admire your tenacity- things are so much easier these days to the point you don’t even have to program to get things working. I used Thingspeak for years when working for the state, but I can do all the same stuff (at least what I need) with Adafruit IO without the $750 annual subscription fee 😊.

[@Aragorn450]

@@ModestMaker Yeah, I was/am on the free account. Much more limited of course, but for a simple temperature probe it was perfect.

[@iz11smh]

Great job, keeps getting better!!

[@ModestMaker]

Thanks IZ- great to hear from you.😊

[@MiH192]

Good job, I was thinking before why are you never using wifi connections. With wide availability of esp8266 and esp32 boards that should be easy. The are even ready to use systems to use like tasmota or espeasy - no need for coding for most of the popular sensors

[@ModestMaker]

Good points. Most of the monitoring I’ve done professionally is in remote locations with no option for Wi-Fi. My yard offers new opportunities to explore 😊.