Posting temperature data to a Private Phant Server (Paid)

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A member of my staff asked me to come up with a way to wirelessly keep track of temperatures for fifteen refrigerators around our facility. I knew about Phant from some conferences I've been to and thought it'd be a great way to keep track of data internally.

I've already got the server set up, and I've got some Sparkfun Blynk Boards (built in WiFi and temperature/humidity sensors), now I just need to code to connect them.

Here's the idea:

  1. Access Wifi (WPA2)
  2. Take a Temp
  3. Post temp data to local Phant server. (Public key / Private Key)
  4. Repeat every four hours.

My programming skills are atrocious and I just want to be done with this project. I'm paying $50.

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Lonecoon:
A member of my staff asked me to come up with a way to wirelessly keep track of temperatures for fifteen refrigerators around our facility. I knew about Phant from some conferences I've been to and thought it'd be a great way to keep track of data internally.

I've already got the server set up, and I've got some Sparkfun Blynk Boards (built in WiFi and temperature/humidity sensors), now I just need to code to connect them.

Here's the idea:

  1. Access Wifi (WPA2)
  2. Take a Temp
  3. Post temp data to local Phant server. (Public key / Private Key)
  4. Repeat every four hours.

My programming skills are atrocious and I just want to be done with this project. I'm paying $50.

That's an hourly rate, right?

Paul

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Paul_KD7HB:
That's an hourly rate, right?

Paul

You really think it'll take more than an hour to write something that simple?

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I guess at this stage you are just wanting a simple "proof of concept" setup to demonstrate that the system is usable at a basic level.
It would not be difficult to achieve that. Sparkfun has even a test "Phant" channel which works without TLS, so it would be easy to demonstrate that something works.

You'd then want to check how a deployment of 15 devices would look like, and how it could be managed. Maybe different wireless lan credentials, maybe local firewalls preventing internet access, maybe only a remote sensor can be located in the refrigerator but not the whole device. Maybe power consumption is an issue etc. etc.

I don't have one of these Sparkfun Blynk Board - ESP8266 devices, so I can't get further involved, but wish you luck with it.