# Which Arduino Boards Have Ethernet and Work with Arduino Cloud? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Guidance\ **Created:** [January 9, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368 "2023-01-09T18:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/1 "2023-01-09T18:50:24Z")
I would like to use the Arduino Cloud to see live data and graph it, store it, etc. Basic stuff like temperature. I also would like to be able to remotely update the code on the board. From what I gather this can be done. However, I am not sure what board WITH ETHERNET will work with the Arduino Cloud. Do any? Can I use an Arduino Mega with the Ethernet 2 Shield? > **[Arduino Ethernet Shield 2](https://store.arduino.cc/products/arduino-ethernet-shield-2)** > > The Arduino Ethernet Shield 2 connects your Arduino to the internet in mere minutes. Just plug this module onto your Arduino Board, connect it to your network with an RJ45 cable (not included) and follow a few simple steps to start... Can I use an Adafruit Feather with the Ethernet Shield? > **[Adafruit Ethernet FeatherWing](https://www.adafruit.com/product/3201)** > > Wireless is wonderful, but sometimes you want the strong reliability of a wire. If your Feather board is going to be part of a permanent installation, this Ethernet FeatherWing will let you ... Or, am I out of luck and have to use Wifi? I really would like to stay away from wifi because a cable works fine and wifi only introduces more attack surface. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/2 "2023-01-09T18:51:16Z")
Or maybe this is the one I should be using? > **[Arduino MKR ETH Shield](https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/arduino-mkr-eth-shield)** > > Are you developing a project for an environment where wireless connections are unavailable or would be inefficient? The MKR ETH shield allows to have a wired Ethernet connection between your MKR board and your network or the Internet. This is... ---
**Author:** ![GrandPete](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/grandpete/32/1126625_2.png) [@GrandPete](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/GrandPete)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/3 "2023-01-09T18:53:32Z")
the Nano 33 IOT is to me the simpler and more affordable board with wifi and cloud connection. I tested it on Arduino cloud with examples provided with IDE and it works perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/4 "2023-01-09T19:10:53Z")
> [@GrandPete](#): > > Nano 33 IOT How would you add Ethernet and the ability to upload new sketches through the Ethernet port using the Nano 33 IOT board? ---
**Author:** ![GrandPete](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/grandpete/32/1126625_2.png) [@GrandPete](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/GrandPete)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/5 "2023-01-09T19:12:57Z")
this a functionnality from Arduino Cloud. But I dont tested yet. For waht I remember, a dedicated sketch (like a library) is uploaded along with your code and allow uplodaing on the air. I propose you to ask the Arduino Cloud wich will have good (better than mine) explanations EDIT: and the internet access is driven through wifi only. Maybe I read your needs too quickly? You need a cable for internet in your config? ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Pyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Nick\_Pyner](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Nick_Pyner)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/6 "2023-01-09T22:58:08Z")
My first Arduino was an EtherTen by Freetronics. It is a Uno with Ethernet and SD built in. They also make an EtherMega. Both are expensive but the former gave me a good start. I think you are best off with a Mega and a W5100 Ethernet shield. This shield has an excellent SD slot included. No comment on uploading new programmes. I think it is possible. ---
**Author:** ![horace](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/horace/32/1014299_2.png) [@horace](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/horace)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/7 "2023-01-10T07:57:45Z")
have a look at the [enc28j60-ethernet-module](https://www.mischianti.org/2022/11/14/esp32-ethernet-enc28j60-with-plain-http-and-ssl-https/) - it has an SPI interface and cannect to almost any microcontroller ---
**Author:** ![Juraj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/juraj/32/238785_2.png) [@Juraj](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Juraj)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/8 "2023-01-10T10:05:30Z")
the Arduino IoT Cluod only supports a few boards with WiFi and the library is written only for WiFi. EDIT: it supports Ethernet with Arduino Portenta > ---
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/9 "2023-01-10T20:16:37Z")
Thank you for the replies everyone. If the Arduino Cloud could do the upload to a board with an Ethernet port it would take the cake and I would buy right now. However, as @Juraj mentioned, this functionality does not exist, currently, except for the Portenta board. The Portenta is really cool. But also $350+ here in USA, so it starts to be come just as expensive as some of the industrial automation solutions I am looking to disrupt by using a less expensive Arduino. Ultimately what I think I will do is use a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to be based right next to an Arduino board with Sensors. That way I can remote into the Pi, over LAN based Ethernet, and change the code, etc. I might even use the Pi for the whole project. As Arduino starts to bump into more "Pro" worlds with the PLC options, Portenta, Opta, etc, I hope they will add the ability to upload code via an Ethernet port. Thank you for the help! ---
**Author:** ![horace](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/horace/32/1014299_2.png) [@horace](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/horace)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/10 "2023-01-10T20:43:59Z")
> [@anon14350358](#): > > Ultimately what I think I will do is use a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to be based right next to an Arduino board with Sensors. if you do require a RPi + arduino and wish to transfer data between the devices you 1. can plug the Arduino Serial USB into a RPi USB port 2. the Arduino will appear as a RPi serial port - I seem to remember it appears as /dev/ttyUSB0 3. information transmited to Arduino Serial is received by /dev/ttyUSB0 program the RPi in C++, Java, Python, etc ---
**Author:** ![Juraj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/juraj/32/238785_2.png) [@Juraj](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Juraj)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/11 "2023-01-10T20:56:05Z")
an idea. the IoT Cloud supports esp8266. and the esp8266 Arduino can use w5500 as network interface for the WiFi library. (well known network interfaces for the WiFi library are WiFi and SoftAP) ---
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/12 "2023-01-10T21:00:32Z")
Good call! Do you think it would be better to store the data on the RPi SD card or store it on the Arduino? I think it might be easier to have it on the RPi though this is my first data logging project so I may be missing some good design principles on a project like this. ---
**Author:** ![Juraj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/juraj/32/238785_2.png) [@Juraj](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Juraj)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/13 "2023-01-10T21:03:26Z")
a Raspi is an overkill here in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![anon14350358](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@anon14350358](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/anon14350358)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/14 "2023-01-10T21:51:11Z")
I agree. But, since the Arduino Cloud does not play with Ethernet for some reason, it has therefore been established that using an RPi is the only way to remote upload new code so I am going with it. Unless you meant it is overkill to read and store data to an SD card on the PI vs the Arduino? Either way I have what I need to proceed and thank you for your input. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Pyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Nick\_Pyner](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Nick_Pyner)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/15 "2023-01-10T22:30:51Z")
I must have missed something here - like what the "cloud" is. I don't see how Arduino's cloud can be hardware specific but, if it is, that is a compelling reason to use somebody else's that isn't. ---
**Author:** ![Juraj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/juraj/32/238785_2.png) [@Juraj](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/Juraj)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/16 "2023-01-11T08:36:28Z")
@Nick_Pyner it requires the ECCX08 crypto chip or an Espressif MCU ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/system/32/1140315_2.png) [@system](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/which-arduino-boards-have-ethernet-and-work-with-arduino-cloud/1075368/17 "2023-07-10T08:36:59Z")
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