Pachube: It IS a "YouTube" for data stre

Many of us use our Arduinos to monitor sensors... but what do we do with the data?

Many thanks for the help and encouragement received via PM in response to recent enquiries... There are many Arduino people also active at Pachube. I'm still very much a novice, but sometimes a novice "sees" problems and questions that an "expert" doesn't realize are there.

I've put a "Getting Started" guide up for you at...

If you have an "always on" internet connection, don't mind leaving your PC running 24x7, and are willing to do a little (nothing to buy) work to set it up as a webserver (explained- you dojn't need a static IP address), then you can send data up to Pachube, too. And if you want to go farther, you can have data FROM Pachube make your Arduino "do things". Etc. Lots and lots of possibilitie, many Arduino driven.

If you have your Arduino set up as a webserver, "visible" from the internet, you don't need the PC I mentioned earlier.

Maybe I'm missing the point but FarWatcher was more impressive to me. Pachube is just a way for an IP connection to share data on the www. Once you turn a physical parameter into an electrical signal then into IP packets all the "interesting" work is done. Maybe that just shows the limits of my imagination.

Hey that seems like an awesome idea. I like the site. My only issue is I can't seem to read any of the data? When I click on a pushpin on the map it just says loading for a split second and then nothing happens.

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