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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Troubleshooting home automation project issues


In this part of the chapter, we are going to see what can go wrong when building home automation systems in the cloud using the Arduino MKR1000 board. Indeed, some of the steps involved here are quite complex and many things can go differently than expected.

The smoke detector constantly sends alerts

If the smoke detector is constantly sending you alerts but no smoke is present, go back to the calibration stage and adjust the potentiometer to the desired value. Then, make sure that you place a threshold above this value inside the code, so it will only send you alerts when smoke is actually present.

Dashboard

If you correctly configured your boards but can't see them as online inside the dashboard, there are many things you can check. First, check that you changed the ID inside the code, and that you also entered the exact same ID in the dashboard. Also open the Serial monitor and make sure you can see that the board is indeed connected to the cloud...