Monitoring the device remotely
We are now going to see how to access the data stored on dweet.io and display it graphically. For that, we are going to use a website called freeboard.io. You can go there with the following URL http://freeboard.io/.
This is the main welcome screen where you need to create an account:
Once you have an account, you can create a new board:
Once this is done, you should be redirected to a similar page showing an empty board:
First, we need to set a datasource, meaning that we need to tell Freeboard to get data from the dweet thing we are storing the data in. Add a new datasource and fill out the fields as shown in the following screenshot, with the name of the thing that stores your data of course:
After that, you will see the datasource appearing at top of your board, with the last update date:
It's now time to add some graphical elements to our dashboard. We'll first add one for the temperature. Click on a new pane, which will create a new block inside the dashboard...