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Adafruit IO Setup Guide for Beginners

This document provides instructions for getting started with Adafruit IO by setting up an account, creating feeds, and building a basic dashboard. It outlines the key steps: 1. Sign up for an Adafruit IO account and find your username and authentication key. 2. Create two initial feeds called "photocell" and "onoff" to store light sensor data and act as an on/off switch. 3. Build a simple dashboard with a gauge connected to the "photocell" feed to display light levels, and a toggle switch connected to the "onoff" feed to control device power.

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Adafruit IO Setup Guide for Beginners

This document provides instructions for getting started with Adafruit IO by setting up an account, creating feeds, and building a basic dashboard. It outlines the key steps: 1. Sign up for an Adafruit IO account and find your username and authentication key. 2. Create two initial feeds called "photocell" and "onoff" to store light sensor data and act as an on/off switch. 3. Build a simple dashboard with a gauge connected to the "photocell" feed to display light levels, and a toggle switch connected to the "onoff" feed to control device power.

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Getting Started on Adafruit IO

by lady ada
Going forward in this tutorial we'll be assuming two or three things.

 You are connecting to Adafruit IO's MQTT server (a.k.a broker) -  you


could use another broker and as long as it fits the MQTT 3 or 3.1.1
specs, it ought  to work.
 You are connecting via the Internet - WiFi, Ethernet, and cellular are
king here. Other transports would need a gateway
 You are using an Arduino or compatible - Our code is fairly portable,
but it order to keep the examples concrete, we'll be focusing on the
Arduino library
 You have already signed up for Adafruit IO and logged in

Honestly, if this is your first time using MQTT, the above is a pretty safe way
to get started!

Step #0 - [Link] key and feeds


Before you can go crazy with Internetting your Things, you will need to do a
little light config work to get [Link] ready for you.
To do this we'll introduce three new terms

 Account username - This is the name of your account, which you set
when creating your adafruit account.
 Key - this is a long, unique identifier that you use to authenticate any
devices using your account. This is your password! Keep it safe! You
get one key per account, but you can, at any time revoke and
regenerate your key.
 Feed - this is basically a set of data that you can read or write from
like a sequential file. There is some history stored with feeds, with
MQTT you cannot access historical data (REST does support it) but you
can add data and you can receive the latest added data.
Where to find your username
You can find your username by visiting [Link]
logging in. Your username is right there!

Where to find your [Link] key


Visit [Link] look in the top left. You will see a little
navbar with a yellow key
Click it to see your key. If you regenerate your key, your old key will no
longer be valid and you'll need to update all your projects!

(The key above is just me bashing on the keyboard, don't use that number.
Use only the key that is created for your account!)

Create your first two feeds


You can read up on how to do this here
[Link]
Once you've read that. Go to your feeds page and create two feeds

1. photocell - this feed will store light data from your device to


[Link]
2. onoff - this feed will act as an on/off switch, sending data to your
device from [Link]

Create a dashboard
Like feeds, this has its very own, excellent tutorial. Read all about it here
[Link]
adafruit-dot-io
Once you've read it, create a dashboard with a gauge connected to photocell

Use a thin type gauge with min value 0 and max value 1024 (this could store
a 10 bit value)
the block is now added to the dashboard
Next up, make another block, this time an on-off toggle switch. Tie it to
the onoff feed

Use the defaults for the 'on' and 'off' texts


OK now you have two blocks! You are ready to rock.

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