Hello, I'm a newbie to this space, sorry in advance for being slow.
I have an Arduino Uno Wifi R2 board, which includes an accelerometer and gyroscope onboard. I have written sketches to serial.print the values of these sensors and to connect to wifi. These sketches compile and run properly and I get the stream of values in my serial monitor. So far so good.
I now want to upload that data stream to adafruit IO feeds (why adafruit IO? because 1) Arduino's own cloud does not support my board!!! and 2) the capabilities fit my needs).
I have set the feeds properly in adafruit (as part of a group). I have also set proper dashboards. Both of these appear fine.
What I can't figure is how to upload the values to adafruit IO. I have read docs but can't figure what is relevant to my situation and board, in particular adafruit's docs appear to assume that the wifi board is adafruit and I could not find anything relevant on the Arduino side. I don't know where to start.
I think you are looking for problems that aren't actually there. Ada, quite understandably, assumes/hopes you are using their board but WiFi is Wifi and getting the signal out is a matter of Arduino code, not the choice of hardware.
The vital code is that which wraps up the data you have already acquired in order to send it to their cloud.
I have not done this myself and unfortunately had a crash recently and lost all my bookmarks, but there is a swag of examples of how to get the dashboard up on YouTube - usually posted by smart young guys in India. Adafruit also have their own learning facility, which seems to be pretty good.
Nick_Pyner:
The vital code is that which wraps up the data you have already acquired in order to send it to their cloud.
Yep, that's exactly what I am looking for. And not finding so far.
Also, it does matter that the board is wifi. Some of the API from adafruit combine (for reasons I don't understand) data stream and wifi on their shield, and hence I can't use them. And the Arduino cloud does not support my wifi board, but supports the Uno without wifi. So yes, it matters.
Since the community does not appear helpful, I am trying to learn MQTT and see what I can do with it.
Nick_Pyner:
Well, that might tell you quite a bit about the relevance of the hardware.
Interesting approach to helping the community...
What are you alluding to? That Arduino sells irrelevant stuff? Or is there something deeper to your comments?
It appears Adafruit has created their own version of WifiNINA in order to support uploading feeds to adafruit.io from, among other wifi boards, the Uno Wifi Rev2... So much for wifi not mattering.