neilh20

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Hi all! Thank you for all of your feedback and tips! I spent some time this week looking at the mqtt3.thingspeak.com server and I was able to get a channel up and running on it.

Overall, it’s not drastically different than mqtt.thingspeak.com. The main aspect being removed in the legacy Thingspeak server is the API…[Read more]

@mbarney, @neilh20, thanks for pinging us.

As @heather mentioned, we released MonitorMW v0.12 yesterday at that time, which has some major under-the-hood improvements to substantially improve reliability, including now being hosted by AWS (zone: us-east-2; Ohio). For details read  our v0.12.0: Update to Python 3.8 & Django 2.2; Migrate to AWS…[Read more]

@mbarney, @neilh20, thanks for your posts. The switch from the LimnoTech server to Amazon Web Services happened shortly after 13:00 EST on December 7. LimnoTech’s team is seeing that their production server is still receiving data from devices, which means that data is not going to the new AWS production. @aufdenkampe and his LimnoTech team are…[Read more]

@neilh20. Hey Neil! Sorry it’s been a while, but just a quick update. I was able to get it to work. I ended up purchasing a new XBee cellular modem (same type) alongside the Digi IoT Development Kit. Works great now!

I’m thinking the issue was either that I had set up the modem with a board that wasn’t the dedicated XCTU board (I was using the…[Read more]

@neilh20 Ok, that sounds good. I just sent the details to your email. Let me know if it still works.

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I’ll put the files up on a google drive and send a link for a folder to download here in a bit.

Yes, micro-python gives you lots of option. We use TLS1.2 encryption of our data, run a broker at one of our regional headquarters and also have a FTP-Secure server to remotely update both the XBee and the Teensy 3.5 processor I use as the…[Read more]

@vogelrnws Thank you for sending that. I’ll be sure to take a look at it if ThingSpeak doesn’t work.

@neilh20 I tried running the code with your ModularSensors library, and it still didn’t work. The apn I’m using is hologram. If I am using a Hologram SIM card, is that correct, or should I change the source to something else? Also, what is…[Read more]

Hi there @vogelrnws. Honestly, It’d be awesome if you could send that code. I’m still considering my options on the method to publish the data, but that could be helpful!

@neilh20, ok! I’ll try that. For some reason (not really sure why), the code all of a sudden started saying that it couldn’t connect to the internet for clock sync. I’m…[Read more]

@neilh20 and @zeke-holloman

Gonna let you all work through this on the mayfly code using the xbee transparent mode. If at some point you would like to use the micro-python option in the xbee I can provide some code to just use simple serial.println() on the mayfly to send payload to the xbee and it will handle all the MQTT stuff in the background.

Hey @neilh20. I just had a thought. The fact that the software works with the Digi WiFi S6B. Do you think that means its an issue with the actual cellular connection as opposed to the code?

Hi there @neilh20. Thanks for your response, sorry I couldn’t get to it until now. I spent some time on the code, and I tried the code with the 0.28.5 version of the EnviroDIY ModularSensors library just to see if anything changed. It still isn’t uploading to ThingSpeak though. I tried the 0.30.0 version of the ModularSensors library, alongside…[Read more]

Hi @neilh20, thanks for all your help! Yeah, I think I replaced the channel key in the trace with the thingSpeakChannelKey for the forum. I’m looking at the Topic [41] thing and I see the key in the topic channels/…

Here’s the platformIO file.

[platformio]
src_dir = src/logging_to_thingspeak
;src_dir =…[Read more]

Hey @neilh20. Thanks for looking at. Yeah, I already had the keys and the channel ID in the code, I just took them out for the forum. Sorry, I understand that could have been confusing. Other than that, is there anything else you could see it being?

Hey, thanks @neilh20. I added that and uploaded the program and this was the serial monitor output. What does dataPublisherBase refer to?

Now running logging_to_thingspeak.ino on Logger logger

Using ModularSensors Library version 0.28.5
TinyGSM Library version 0.10.9

Logger timezone is set to UTC -5
RTC timezone is set to UTC
CTDcond has a…[Read more]

Hi there! Thank you @neilh20 and @vogelrnws for all of your help! Yeah, based on what I’m seeing, I don’t think its been connecting at all. I have been checking the channel I’m using whenever I’m trying to connect and no data has been popping up in the fields. It’s only got like, 5 fields, so it’s not too complicated either. Sorry, I’m somewhat…[Read more]

James, I really like all the YosemiTech sensors I’ve used, and I’ve facilitated the purchase of approximately ~150 or more for various organizations. The Y511 turbidity sensor with wiper is the most common we use, and everyone is very satisfied with it.

I’ve been working with a water utility, and after doing a careful comparison with their other…[Read more]

James, we’ve been playing with hardware designed for this for quite some time (as a subfolder in our SensorModbusMaster repo), and just recently spun our commits/designs into it’s own Mayfly-Modbus-Wing repo. Have you seen this?

Our solder-your own DIY version is described here: https://github.com/EnviroDIY/Mayfly-Modbus-Wing/tree/master/Modbus-Ma…[Read more]