In Chapter 24, Connecting Sensory Inputs from the Robot Car to the Web, we were able to send the distance sensory data to the cloud using the website https://thingsboard.io/. We ended by showing an analogue meter displaying the distance value. In this section, we will dig a little deeper into the analogue widget by customizing it.
This is how we change the look of the distance gauge:
- Log into your ThingsBoard account
- Click on
DASHBOARDS
- Click on the
ROBOTEYES
title
- Click on the orange pencil icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen
- You will notice that the
distance
analogue dial has changed (see the following screenshot) - For one thing, there are three new icons located at the top-right corner of the dial
- At the bottom-right corner, the color has changed to light gray as well
- You may resize the widget by hovering your mouse over the bottom-right corner
- You may also move the widget around the dashboard
- The
X
in the...