Feed Setup

If you do not already have an Adafruit IO account set up, head over to io.adafruit.com to link your Adafruit.com account to Adafruit IO.

The first step is to create a new Adafruit IO feed to hold the data from the PyPortal's temperature sensor. Navigate to the feeds page on Adafruit IO. Then click Actions -> Create New Feed, and name this feed weight. 

• If you do not already know how to create a feed, head over to Adafruit IO Basics: Feeds.

Build an Adafruit IO Dashboard

Next, you'll create a dashboard to display the values from the feed you created.

• If you do not know how to create or use Dashboards in Adafruit IO, head over to the Adafruit IO Basics: Dashboards guide.
  
  

Adding a Gauge Block

To display the values from your Scale, you'll add a gauge block to your dashboard. This blocks displays values within a fixed range and can serve as a visual indication for if the values are too low or high.

Adding a Line Chart

While displaying the current value of the weight is useful, Adafruit IO stores data so you can monitor how it changes a long period of time. Alternatively, you can visualize it in real-time To do this, we'll use the Line Chart block.

Your final dashboard should look like the following:

If you want to customize your dashboard - add more blocks to the dashboard, or resize the existing blocks.

Obtain Adafruit IO Key

You are also going to need your Adafruit IO username and secret API key.

Navigate to your profile and click the View AIO Key button to retrieve them. Write them down in a safe place, you'll need them for the next step.