Adafruit IO Getting Started

If you're new to Adafruit IO, this guide page has lots of great info and links to check out.

Renaming AIO Feeds

When you head to your Adafruit IO Feeds page, you'll see the Raspberry Pi bridge name and sensor name pairings of any sensor boards you're running. Here, I have two:

Since these names are derived from the MAC addresses of the devices themselves, they are good unique IDs, but not very friendly looking! Let's change them.

First, look at the CLUE screen and make note of the sensor ID. In my case it reports caa19e07860b.

Then, click on the feed group of the same name. You'll see a settings gear icon in the Group Info box. Click that.

In the Edit Group popup, give the Name field a more descriptive name. Be sure to leave the Key value as it is or things will break!

Repeat this process for any other boards you're using.

Dashboard Setup

Set up a new dashboard -- I named mine BroadcastNet Dashboard.

Hit Create to make the new dashboard, which we can then fill with feed data blocks.

Blocks

Now we'll add feed data blocks to the Dashboard.

Press the + icon to add new blocks.

Here I've added a graph widget with the two temperatures from the two different boards.

You can continue to add elements to the dashboard depending on what you'd like to see!

Measurement List

The BroadcastNet library has many different measurements it can read with the measurement command. You can check out the documentation here.

For convenience, this is the full list:

TVOC

Total Volatile Organic Compounds as a float in parts per billion.

acceleration

Acceleration as (x, y, z) tuple of floats in meters per second per second.

battery_voltage

Battery voltage in millivolts. Saves two bytes over voltage and is more readable in bare packets.

color

Color as RGB integer.

current

Current as a float in milliamps.

distance

Distance as a float in centimeters.

duty_cycle

16-bit PWM duty cycle. Independent of frequency.

eCO2

Equivalent CO2 as a float in parts per million.

frequency

As integer Hertz

gyro

Gyro motion as (x, y, z) tuple of floats in radians per second.

light

Brightness as a float without units.

lux

Brightness as a float in SI lux.

magnetic

Magnetism as (x, y, z) tuple of floats in micro-Tesla.

orientation

Absolution orientation as (x, y, z) tuple of floats in degrees.

pressure

Pressure as a float in hectopascals.

relative_humidity

Relative humidity as a float percentage.

temperature

Temperature as a float in degrees centigrade.

value

16-bit unit-less value. Used for analog values and for booleans.

voltage

Voltage as a float in Volts.

weight

Weight as a float in grams.