#help-with-wippersnapper-and-adafruitio

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hard pelican
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It's the feather esp32-s2 if that's any use

ornate pagoda
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Yes! I have an example, give me a moment.

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The try/excepts are in there because networking can be flaky, and you want your code to continue running.

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The sleep code is unrelated to the networking code, so it should be drop-in to your code as well.

hard pelican
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Thankyou so much!

frank gazelle
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so I got a pro trinket 5v and I put some code onto it, then realized some code was wrong, fixed it, and reuploaded it, will the original code mess with it, if so how would I fix that?

fervent socket
frank gazelle
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oh, your right, haha

fervent socket
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Don't worry about it, it happens a LOT

fervent socket
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See my original message to Valorous Rush above :)

ancient jay
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Ah. Oops!

austere haven
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does anyone know the max retries exceeded with url error?

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i am trying to send temp, humidity and pressure from sensehat raspberry pi to adafruit io

buoyant prism
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For instance, as a paying user your max requests are 60/minute.

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I think it's 10/min for free accounts If you have a free Adafruit IO Account, the rate limit is 30 data points per minute.

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so, if you have a lot of data you need to send, I would recommend buffering as much as you can and transferring in batches

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or perhaps even consider using something else as a collector... like InfluxDB, and you could then send rolled up metrics to Adafruit IO or whatever.

royal rapids
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You should be able to send temp, humid, and pressure though at a slower data rate. Make sure your code is adhering to 30 data-points-per-minute. To do this, add some time.sleep(seconds_to_sleep) calls if you're programming the Pi using Python

royal rapids
slate rose
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Is there any documentation available on the adafruit io image converter?

young kayak
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How simple is a dashboard made with io?

royal rapids
royal rapids
young kayak
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I need it to be K.I.S.S.

royal rapids
young kayak
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Angle, temp

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Will be converted to brix/sg/plato

royal rapids
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It'd be a pretty simple dashboard to both build, and look at.

slate rose
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Right ok thanks

hollow meteor
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Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out which object to pass in the body of this request: https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/#replace-action. The docs mention the "trigger" object but I can't find it's definition, so I don't know which values and keys I need to pass in i.e. a Postman request. Anyone an idea? Thanks!

royal rapids
hollow meteor
young kayak
violet fractal
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hey all. i am looking at an arduino kit that comes with an ultrasonic sensor what i am wondering is what is the accuracy of it as far as a level plane would be? ive looked and googles a bit but all that i can seem to find is stuff regarding accuracy of distance as opposed to a pin point. (for example if i were to throw one on a level and have it 4 inches off the ground would it detect stuff at 3 inches off the ground?)

neat charm
violet fractal
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yeah thats what i was wondering

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trying to make a height adjustment based on the distance from an object so a laser and return sensor would probably be my best bet right?

neat charm
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Most precise would be something like a linear encoder, but if you need to go non-contact, then optical is a decent option. ST has a line of time-of-flight sensors which are pretty good at modest ranges. A bit of retroreflective tape would probably help to pinpoint the part of the object you want to measure, if that's an option.

violet fractal
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I mean these are logs that i am trying to get a height on for a mill. At first i asked in general cause I wassnt sure which channel would apply best. I am only looking for a short distance like max 15 feet or so. Typically probably only 6 feet tho. I was thinking initially to use a laser to bounce it off the log end and once its sensor catches it then it can stop the motors that adjust the height

violet fractal
violet fractal
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looking at the cost of that sensor and a cheap measuring laser i think i might go that way and then disassemble that to make things hapen that way i can actually see the laser on the log and adjust accordingly

young kayak
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Is there any templates or code generator for IO?

buoyant prism
young kayak
honest whale
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hello! So I've managed to get a board all hooked up to adafruit io, but the person i'm building this for doesn't really like using the dashboard as a primary interface. I was hoping to be able to send data from adafruit io to a simple application hosted on a webpage. I think I can do this with javascript fetch and a webhook, but adafruit io seems only capable of taking info via webhook, not sending data. Am I missing something?

young kayak
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Is there a way to force a setup page when the user plugs in the device?

royal rapids
grave mist
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I am looking for a cheap and easy way to collect temperature data with several DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensors and send that to Adafruit IO. There are a lot of board choices and I am looking for some advice which rabbit hole to go down first. ๐Ÿ˜‚ My last programming project was 20 years ago, so might as well call me a beginner. Would you pick a QT-py ESP 32 s2? or a Huzzah32 ESP 32 Feather, or something else?

royal rapids
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I'd go with the ESP32v2 Feather

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S2 feather is also a good choice

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Keep in mind - the ESP32 Feather can't run CircuitPython, the ESP32-S2 Feather can run CircuitPython. These are two separate chipsets.

grave mist
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Now we play the "which one gets back in stock first" game. ๐Ÿ˜‚

supple pebble
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Howdy folks! I'd like to use my ESP8266Huzzah with whippersnapper so I went through the tutorial. I did the install steps but when I look at the wipperSnapper tab there is nothing in the list.

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This Huzzah was just working with Arduino, so it's probably not the hardware.

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Tried the "update credentials" screen, still nothing on the wipperSnapper tab

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oh, when I tried the "connect" button on the "Install Adafruit.io WipperSnapper for ESP32/ESP8266" page it has an error: A buffer overrun has been detected.

supple pebble
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Going through install steps again, It installs without error. But still nothing listed on the wipperSnapper tab.

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I'm using a chrome browser, so that's not the problem.

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Am I using a "charge only" USB cable? no, I can see in device manager that it's on COM14.

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What else could it be?

supple pebble
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My router doesn't see the Huzzah on the wifi, so that isn't working.

royal rapids
royal rapids
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Do you know if the network is 2.4GHz or 5GHz?

young kayak
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can we make forms in mqtt ?

spark fjord
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Hi, I'm pretty new here. If I'm wrong here please sent me the right way ๐Ÿ™‚
I plan to use the Circuit Playground wand want to write data on a sd card via sd card reader. Is that even possible? I couln't find anything close to that via the search. Anybody has an idea where to start?

royal rapids
young kayak
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Can I send multiple tread with one publish ?

young kayak
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Can adafruit io have an sql database along with it?

loud gyro
young kayak
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The thing is that I have to calibrate my sensor before they do the task they have to do. I want that data to be used while the task is going (up to 30 days) after that I have to charge and re calibrate.

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Thanks btw

loud gyro
young kayak
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So the feed would be only modified if calibration is done.

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Can io ask a device to go out of sleep to do a scan and go back to sleep?

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Also I have value that are user added after a specific gravity test of water and sugar mix???

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While writing this I thought of a way to do it with feeds lol

young kayak
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How can I make it more "Object" like

  try:
      io.loop()
  except (ValueError, RuntimeError) as e:
      print("Failed to get data, retrying\n", e)
      wifi.reset()
      io.reconnect()
      continue
  if (time.monotonic() - prv_refresh_time) > 30:
    tilt = calcTilt(mpu6050)
    print("{:6.2f}deg".format(tilt))
    gravity = Get_Poly(tilt) #Calibration Settings 
    print("{:6.4f} {}".format(gravity, gravity_scale))
    print("{:2.2f} Celcius".format(Get_Temp()))
    io.publish("brewmate-hydrometer.bmh-temperature", Get_Temp())
    io.publish("brewmate-hydrometer.bmh-gravity", gravity)
    


    prv_refresh_time = time.monotonic()
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I want to add something that if io send a calibration command it will get the offset of X Y Z , and add other input from IO to gather the Tilt value in a liquid

eternal cosmos
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anyone know if it's possible to set up a dashboard block based on time? I want to show the last date/time that a feed was updated.

young kayak
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how can I send an external command from Dashboard to Device ?

young kayak
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is it me or MQTT is nice to make graphs but when you want to deal with user input and non-fluctuating data, it's meh.

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or is it just adafruit io ?

young kayak
random galleon
young kayak
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Thanks Dexter will do

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It's quite hard to understand how to do user to device input

random galleon
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Instead of just printing the message from the server you would act on it.

young kayak
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can I act with a match var : case ...

random galleon
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That's not supported in circuitpython.

young kayak
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All those are inputs from the user

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so I have to use if elif and else

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or do I have an alternative ?

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@random galleon do you know if I can use text field to do those input ?

young kayak
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@random galleon Can I send a dict to a feed ?

random galleon
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for what purpose?

young kayak
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my mpu6050 offset calibration is X Y Z

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I don't want to use 3 feeds for that

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just like the polynominal calculation of the liquid density is 4 numbers would be simpler to have them in tuple or dict

random galleon
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Yeah, you can do that.

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Seems like you would want a 'radio button' input for your temperature scale. Does adafruit.io have radio button inputs?

young kayak
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not that I know of

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I'll have to work with slide and if selection

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do I have to subscribe to the feed for it to go in message or it's going to enter the message queue anyway ?

random galleon
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You could add an enhancement request. "Hey, we want radio buttons in adafruit.io!"

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You do have to subscribe to each feed you want to process.

young kayak
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Thanks !

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Hey we want FORMS input in Adafruit IO

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lol

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can we subscribe to a whole group one shot and call each of them ?

random galleon
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I don't think so.

young kayak
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ok

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New message on topic brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-calibration: 1
New message on topic brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-calibration: 0

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this is great

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@random galleon if I want to receive the last entered data from a feed that has not been updated resently ?

random galleon
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This is where you would use io.get(feed).

Calling this method will make Adafruit IO publish the most recent value on feed_key.

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Just call io.get and the latest value should show up in your message function.

young kayak
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again as to be subscribed to it

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@random galleon you made my day !

random galleon
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Happy to help!

young kayak
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OffsetXYZ = message

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this will put the dict in my var ?

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invalid message datatype

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argh

random galleon
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You may need to parse the json.

young kayak
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looking for json parsing

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yup

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or base64 strings

young kayak
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str and eval seem to work

young kayak
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I think I don't import all the adafruit io lib

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from adafruit_io.adafruit_io import IO_MQTT
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so I don't have acces to the client where .receive is

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it's in http

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so it may not be ok

hidden zodiac
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Has anyone ever used an inertial memory unit before?

neat charm
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Yep, a number of folks have. (The M in IMU stands for Measurement, by the way.) This channel is for the "adafruit.io" web service, though, so sensor questions might be better asked elsewhere.

young kayak
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Fixed my problem by removing the global var from ouside the message fonction and globalized the var inside of it.

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Function

robust topaz
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Hi all - I'm looking for help with implementing a second i2c bus on a feather m4 express so I can use a two identical i2c boards. When I try to use general purpose ID pins, I get an invalid pins error:

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i2cL.try_lock()
print(">>> Left:", i2cL.scan())
i2cL.unlock()

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i2cB=busio.I2C(board.D6, board.D5)

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any ideas?

fervent socket
wanton dragon
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Hello!

I just bought a Feather ESP32-S2 with onboard BME280.
I tested the board with Circuit Python and Arduino IDE. The sensor is located at address 0x77.
When I am trying to start the I2C scanner on WipperSnipper, the scanner can not find anything.

I tried to initialize VSENS pin on D7 in WipperSnipper, and start the WiFi scan with toggled D7 pin ON and OFF.

It will be awesome if you can help me with this problem.
Thanks! Forum Topic: https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=189907

Adafruit customer service forums โ€ข View topic - WipperSnipper ESP32...
fervent socket
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Hey, this is a channel for Adafruit IO, a channel for adafruit's IoT service. You should either go to the channel for the language you're using or either #general-tech or #help-with-projects

willow umbra
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Oh ok sorry

fervent socket
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Not to worry, it happens

dry cape
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Hey everyone, Since 4 days iโ€™m having an issue while connecting an adafruit feather sense to raspberry pi 4 through BLE using Blinka Library and the raspberry pi to adafruit io through wifi , i followed all the description of the tutorial online uploaded by adafruit but at the end the pi scan and donโ€™t receive the data from the feather sense , tried more than 5 times but no solution, can someone help please ๐Ÿ™

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This is what it should show

IMG_5549.jpg
mental vigil
# dry cape

It could be your windows defender firewalls blocking your WiFi signal

dry cape
tidal socket
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Hi! I'm having trouble getting the adafruit samd boards installed in my arduino ide. It makes it most of the way until suddenly it says that the crc doesn't match. Any ideas on how to fix this?

young kayak
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#Feed call back :: Config Calls
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bhmc-offsetxyz")
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-calibration")
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-gravscale")
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-tempscale")
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-polynominal")
io.on_message = message
io.get("brewmate-hydro-conf.bmhc-timepublish")
io.on_message = message

How can I optimize this ? looks ugly

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should I make a dict of all the feeds ?

whole plaza
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Hello! I am at the moment setting a Python Edge Speech Recognition with Voice2JSON following this tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/edge-speech-recognition-with-voice2json/configuring-custom-commands

When I get to demo.py it takes really long to give me back a command and I receive "overrun!!! (at least 0.047 ms long)
WARNING:rhasspysilence:Voice command timeout" in the terminal. Any suggestions on how to train it to be more efficient? Any leads highly appreciate it!

Adafruit Learning System
Python Edge Speech Recognition with Voice2JSON

Making your own Voice Assistant that runs right on the Raspberry Pi

sacred depot
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What is the range of this sensor Adafruit Sensirion SCD-30 - NDIR CO2, Speaking of coverage area.

neat charm
sacred depot
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So If I wanna measure co2 level in 100m of area, How could that be?

neat charm
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Heh heh. Walk around with the sensor and take readings throughout the area?

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It's very difficult to measure the air in a place where there is no sensor.

young kayak
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in dashboard, can I create a multi toggle for a dict variable ?

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{"temp":"C","grav":"SG","wait_time":30}
random galleon
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Running WipperSnapper v1.0.0-beta.29 on the Funhouse. Managed to connect to io.adafruit.com exactly once. Now the lights cycle through to yellow and stay there until it does a timeout and reboot.
Is there a newer firmware I could try?

royal rapids
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Does the wipper_boot_out.txt file on the WIPPER drive show anything?

random galleon
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wipper_boot_out.txt: 1.0.0-beta.29

royal rapids
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Hm, I am currently waiting on beta.30 to produce artifacts. I just made the release...

random galleon
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It shows up as a new device on the wippersnapper page.

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Just never online.

royal rapids
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Could you try deleting the board on IO, and holding tight for a second?

random galleon
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sure

royal rapids
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^ Try that, @random galleon

random galleon
# 
Adafruit.io WipperSnapper
Firmware Version: 1.0.0-beta.30
Board ID: adafruit-funhouse-esp32s2
MAC Address: 7C:DF:A1:16:C6:04
Adafruit.io Username: dexters
WiFi Network: XXXXXX
Adafruit.io WipperSnapper
Firmware Version: 1.0.0-beta.30
Board ID: adafruit-funhouse-esp32s2
MAC Address: 7C:DF:A1:16:C6:04
Adafruit.io Username: dexters
WiFi Network: XXXXXX```
got that. Then the filesystem got corrupted. Flashing again.
random galleon
royal rapids
pure geyser
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I am working on my project with the adafruit-clue sensor. But the data collection is too late. Is there anyone who know the solution?

sharp wolf
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i want to take the output from https://www.adafruit.com/product/705 and directly use it as a decimal in a microcontroller, how should i do this

Mini 3-wire Volt Meter (0 - 99.9VDC)

Put a voltage meter anywhere with this very handy display. These are often used by RC hobbyists for keeping track of batteries but we thought it would be great on a breadboard or enclosure. ...

strange cliff
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anyone know if I can drive 12v PC fans with this?

restive vine
worthy turret
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hi i just bought a powerboost 1000c. it turns out my li-ion batteries which i have salvaged from a powerbank do not have a jst connection. is it possible to solder the batteries directly onto the board instead?

neat charm
unkempt topaz
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Can I get an invite to WhippersnapperIO?

unborn quartz
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Hi I am using an adafruit winc1500 shield on arduino Uno and is connecting to my WiFi in a stand alone sketch but wonโ€™t connect in a sketch to also connect to adafruit io . Iโ€™m using an MQTT example sketch

worthy turret
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could i solder onto the vst pins instead

graceful sluice
royal rapids
iron peak
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Good morning! Hope everyone had a great weekend ๐Ÿ™‚

I am trying to power up a USB Breakout, I have ground and power working, but when I try to plug a Barcode Scanner into the USB it does not power on.

There are Green and White wires I need to plug into the board, but I am not sure if these are powered? As far as I understand they are Data In and Data Out?

Would these go into the Analog (A0/A1) or Digital side? Using an M4 Metro Express.

Thanks for the help!

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Just read I may need some inline resistors for the device to accept the power. At least a phone would need that.

neat charm
iron peak
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Oh sorry, thank you @neat charm!

neat charm
tawny flame
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Hi

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I have a circuit playground classic. Was wondering if there is a way to make the playground work without connecting it with the wire.

latent saddle
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I'm logging numerical data and I'd like to add a timestamped string label to a feed as event markers. I know I can add a string value to the feed, but it doesn't get displayed on the chart. I could use another feed to display binary data about state (rain/shine) or I could use numerical codes to show ordinal data {"mild":1,"mod":2,"severe":3} but wouldn't it be nice to be able to display a timestamp/label pair on the dashboard?

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Is there a mechanism for displaying event markers with string labels on a dashboard.

chartLabels.png
fervent socket
# tawny flame Hi

Hey, I think you're in the wrong spot, this channel is for help with the adafruit IOT service Adafruit IO. I'd recommend #help-with-projects or the help-with channel for the language you're using.

outer tinsel
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Dumb question but just want to make sure before I order if I get a memory error on the pyportal is that as simple of a fix as adding an SD card?

neat charm
ornate pagoda
outer tinsel
royal rapids
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Maybe useful for when a person moves a logger, etc.

urban sigil
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I seem to be getting a feed like "flaviof/feeds/evcharger-status-dot-westford-1" when I really expected the dot to be a ... well.... dot! ๐Ÿ™‚ flaviof/feeds/evcharger-status.westford-1

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did anything change recently that could explain this behavior?

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@royal rapids may know... ^ ๐Ÿ™‚

split ocean
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Possibly one of those questions that may have been asked before, but here goes nothing.... Is it possible to change the colour of the "ink' used on io dashboards? Mine are drawn using green, for the most part, and I'm wondering if this can be changed to something else?

urban sigil
royal rapids
royal rapids
split ocean
royal rapids
split ocean
random galleon
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Is there a wippersnapper firmware for ESP-WROOM-32? Which pins are the I2C port?

naive ledge
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I'm having an issue with TinyUSB, where can i ask for help?

ornate pagoda
naive ledge
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i'm using earlephilhower's toolchain under platformIO

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I don't think its an issue with my code as any basic example wouldn't work

ornate pagoda
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A lot of folks keep track of that channel, and you'll get more eyes on it that way.

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It doesn't really fit any one channel perfectly. ๐Ÿ˜„

placid belfry
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Quick question. Does Adafruit blinka support Raspberry OS in 64 bit yet? (It actually works for me, but I made random changes to get all my sensors to work and I didn't write down what I did...)

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Whoops wrong "help with"

urban sigil
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hi folks. I'm trying to add a simple action based on a feed I have and I get a weird-looking error back. Has anyone experienced something similar? I went to my email settings from the link and everything looks fine.

Screen_Shot_2022-04-29_at_9.28.16_AM.png
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oh... nvm... looks like it worked now. weird indeed!

next pebble
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with python I can get the list of feeds but anything else ends up in Adafruit_IO.errors.RequestError: Adafruit IO request failed: 404 Not Found - not found - API documentation can be found at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs

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any idea what could be the issue ?

next pebble
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anyways python request does the job fine however

dim path
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Hi All, I was hoping someone could help me, I picked up the Ano Directional Navigation and scroll wheel, and am trying to get the wheel/rotary encoder working with the Raspberry Pi Pico

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The excellent tutorial: https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/10/06/new-guide-ano-directional-navigation-and-scroll-wheel-rotary-encoder-and-breakout-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit-adafruit/

Explains that the ENCA and ENCB needs to go to d13 and d12 on the adafruit feather 2040, which I assumed is just a regular GPIO pin

Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
NEW GUIDE: ANO Directional Navigation and Scroll Wheel Rotary Encod...

A nifty, little directional rotary encoder kit! This funky user interface element is reminiscent of the original clicking scroll wheel interface on the first iPods. Itโ€™s a fancy mechanical kiโ€ฆ

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So I've flashed circuit python on my pico, soldered the ano scroll wheel to my pico, on GPIO 6 and GPIO 5, and updated the circuitpython to reflect that:

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`# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Kattni Rembor for Adafruit Industries

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

"""
CircuitPython ANO Rotary Encoder and NeoPixel Ring example.
"""
import board
import digitalio
import rotaryio
import time

The pin assignments for the breakout pins. Update this is you are not using a Feather.

ENCA = board.GP6
ENCB = board.GP5
#COMA = board.D11
SW1 = board.GP4
SW2 = board.GP3
SW3 = board.GP1
SW4 = board.GP2
SW5 = board.GP0
#COMB = board.SDA

Rotary encoder setup

encoder = rotaryio.IncrementalEncoder(ENCA, ENCB)
last_position = None

Button pin setup

button_pins = (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5)
buttons = []
for button_pin in button_pins:
pin = digitalio.DigitalInOut(button_pin)
pin.switch_to_input(digitalio.Pull.UP)
buttons.append(pin)

while True:
position = encoder.position
if last_position is None or position != last_position:
print("Position: {}".format(position))
last_position = position
time.sleep(0.5)

if not buttons[0].value:
    print("Center button!")
    time.sleep(0.5)

if not buttons[1].value:
    print("Up button!")
    time.sleep(0.5)


if not buttons[2].value:
    print("Left button!")
    time.sleep(0.5)


if not buttons[3].value:
    print("Down button!")
    time.sleep(0.5)


if not buttons[4].value:
    print("Right button!")
    time.sleep(0.5)

time.sleep(0.5)`

`

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although the other buttons work, the rotary encoder doesn't work

next pebble
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there is no network how do you want to connect ?

dim path
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I'm quite new here, so please forgive me I'm not following "protocol"

next pebble
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that's fine we are all new at something here otherwise we wouldn't ask right ? anyways I don't see how you connect to the outside would from your device

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if you just want to make the encode run ask in projekts maybe, sorry no clue what the problem is

dim path
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ahh sorry, didn't realise your question was for me, I can see in Thonny that when I press a button, it prints the button/direction that's pressed

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but I assumed adafruit.io was for bits&bobs created by adafruit

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let me ask in projects

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thank you

random galleon
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Today I deployed my Funhouse-based greenhouse monitor. It reports the temperature to adafruit.io every two minutes. Sleeping between reports brought the temperature down by about 7 C. I had to catch exceptions from the WiFi connection and from the MQTT client, so it wouldn't go into an error condition and just sit there.

zinc ice
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hello, how can i emulate matrix on rp2040 macropad? i need row and col pins to use KMK firmware. Any help?

graceful sluice
neat charm
next pebble
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how/where would I post some request about adafruit io ? e.g. location allows only coordinates not things like room:kitchen !?

robust panther
next pebble
robust panther
next pebble
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looks like Text Blocks are part of dashboard features which doesn't fit for my current usecase (running through the house meaturing temp). I'll try the forum. Would prefere github / discord but let's see..thanks danh

robust panther
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so you have a sensor called temp with two dynamic values like temprature and comment. Thought this is not possible

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as in data = {'value': 46 , 'comment': 'something meaningful'}

robust panther
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there's id and value. you could encode the text location in the id

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no, wait, I'm looking at the wrong thing... hold on

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i am not very familiar with adafruit.io, only used it a few times

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you could create a "room" feed, etc, and just send text

next pebble
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you basically have a feed which is the id and a value...and for some strange reasons a location which only accepts lat, lat, elv ....in my scenario the sensors move arround on a bot

robust panther
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it's all about geolocation, so instead you could send a complex value that can be parsed on the other side

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also you could overload lat,lon, you don't have to make it actual lat/long, you could encode locations: lat 1=living room, lat 2= kitchen, etc

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Today the regular io people are not around, but the forum would be good

next pebble
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thought an additional comment would be handy for many uses cases...but yes I did got the way you meantioned as I use leafnet which also has only geo coordinates...posted in the forum corrently only a comment as something like that has been posted 2019

robust panther
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sorry I could not be of more help

next pebble
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fine thanks a lot as always danh !

sacred depot
neat charm
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mossy hollyBOT
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Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
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pseudo obsidian
golden stump
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I have a very odd problem. I am using the ESP32-S2 Metro and the Arudino IDE with the AdafruitIO_WiFi library. I am always able to connect at the beginning but after about 15-20 minutes it disconnects. Inside the loop I have tried to detect a disconnected state and reconnect but when I do so, it does not ever reconnect and stays in the state AIO_DISCONNECTED.

I have looked on the monitor and it shows the client disconnecting and no attempt to reconnect.

What am I missing?

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(Sorry, I hit enter accidentally) If I hit the reset button on the board, it reconnects right away and starts saving data to the IO feeds correctly.

bitter parrot
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Hi all, someone can help me with this issue ? I already added an issue on github because I think is a bug (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_IO_Python/issues/142), however the main problem as I research is not in Adafruit_io, instead is in MQTT, or maybe in both... The problem is that the feed just works for three or four days, then I an unexpected disconnection from the feed... Previously it works without interruptions. Any idea or helps will be appreciated!!!

split ocean
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Hi, all. Hopefully not a stupid question... (Circuitpython) Using MQTT connection. How often should "io.loop()" be called? I'm using an UnexpectedMaker Feather ESP32 S3 board, running things from a lipo battery and want to go into light sleep for 30s on each loop using time.sleep(30). Is 30s too much? Ideally, I'd like this to be 3 minutes, but 30s seems fine for now. Any advice? Thanks. ๐Ÿ™‚

muted yacht
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Hi, i got this button, but I'm a little bit confused as to why it has three prongs instead of just two.
Edit: Is it correct that one is ground, one sends signall when closed and the other one when open?

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Ah sorry, I read it as adafruit input output. Not a webservice

neat charm
golden stump
errant lance
# golden stump I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how I can trouble shoot what i...

Do you see anything in the system logs in Linux? Do you have a stable and steady power source for the Raspberry Pi? What kind of sensors are you reading? How are you reading them? You're not showing your code for us to help figure it out. You're not giving details of the code patch. Is something changing in your WiFi environment? I'm not seeing enough information to make anything other than wild random guesses. "Something works for a few days then stops working"

robust panther
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If you can detect the stuck state, you can force the board to reset. It looks like you can call ESP.retart();.

neat charm
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This channel is for the adafruit.io web data service, so you probably want to be asking in #help-with-arduino. Chances are you just need to install / enable the graphics library.

tropic sail
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where to see all the information about this

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like the datapoints

royal rapids
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@tropic sail Which datapoints?

tropic sail
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Like the max amount you can send things to the feed per minute etc

royal rapids
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For Adafruit IO Free

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30 data points per minute
30 days of data storage
Actions every 15 minutes
5 dashboard limit
2 WipperSnapper device limit
5 group limit
10 feed limit

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For Adafruit IO Plus ($10/mo or $99/yr):

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60 data points per minute
60 days of data storage
Actions every 5 seconds
Unlimited dashboards
Unlimited WipperSnapper devices
Unlimited groups
Unlimited feeds

tropic sail
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So i can send things to my feed every 2 seconds

royal rapids
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Note that the data points per minute is across your entire account, for all your feeds.. not on a per-feed basis

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just about!

tropic sail
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Does pulling data from the api do something?

royal rapids
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yep, API actions must adhere to the limits above

tropic sail
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So every request is a datapoint?

royal rapids
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All data modifications/requests are rate limited to prevent excessive load

tropic sail
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Im prob not spamming the api bc im only getting data at begin of program

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Then im updating it with the info from the subscription to the feeds

royal rapids
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As long as it adheres to the limits on the page above, that should be fine

tropic sail
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Subscription to the feed doesnt do anything with datapoint right

royal rapids
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Subscribing to a feed using a MQTT client would not, no

sacred depot
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offf first time I hear about this, didn't know what it was. Seems VERY interesting especially the dashboards

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That was a problem with my Pi project that Id have to build some web services for it/host it myself etc...

royal rapids
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It's free to try out!

rotund ruin
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ive been having a lot of success getting python up, and ive been reverse engineering the CiPy Lucio Blaster Tutorial for most of my needs
i am however, having what i believe is pull up interference for my selector switch, which is making it tough for it to recognize the code i placed for an "OFF" state. it thinks that a switch is still high when it is not
not sure if this is the right area to discuss, but heres the schematic with a resistor to deal with the signal interference. least, i think this is how it works https://puu.sh/J3zC8/6ce1a0dd1e.png

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also im told to get LEDS and Sound to work, D10 needs to be set HIGH, does that mean i cannot use the pin for other work?

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im using the M4 express along with a propmaker feather

graceful sluice
fast trail
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Hi all, I'm trying to connect to IO using arduino on a Feather M0 WiFi board.
I manage to connect to WiFi, but can't manage to connect to the server.
AdafruitIO_Feed.status() returns 2, which is commented as "Client Rejected". What does this mean ? --> Just if anyone ever has this problem, I hadn't uploaded the SSL certificate to the WINC1500 module.
It works now.

pulsar gust
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Can anyone please help me to get the SHT40 working on wippersnapper I just uploaded my best attempt at drivers and all required files. It would mean the world SHT4x driver for wipperSnapper #266 pull request

fast trail
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Ok, I'm back (no idea if there'll be any help here though).
Using python to connect to adafruit-io, I'm getting an error when calling "aio.feeds()"
Adafruit_IO.errors.RequestError: Adafruit IO request failed: 404 Not Found - not found - that is an invalid URL, please check the API documentation at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs to make sure your URL is correct

This works fine when working locally, but fails when trying to run the python app on heroku.
Any idea why?

UPDATE: OK, my mistake.
404: This error is when the username is wrong (I was using the e-mail instead of the username).
401: This error is when using the wrong Key (when I tested I was using the account password instead of IO Key).

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With IO reactive actions is there a way to do an action one time and not repeat with limit every?

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I am uploading to io from circuitpython, my work around to get a notification once will be to toggle the feed to 1 for a few seconds then back to zero.

mellow birch
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@gusty lodge Your work around seems similar to how I'd do it. Another way would be uploading the same data to two feeds, one a few seconds later than the other and then comparing the two of them in your reactive action

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That being said, there may be better ways to do this which I am not aware of, I haven't done much with Adafruit IO since a project I did around a year ago

shell shore
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Hi All, my first posting here. Have been programming with CircuitPython for a few weeks now, using both the Adafruit RP2040 and ESP32-S2 TFT Feather boards, using Mu and of course the latest versions of CircuitPython and associated libraries. I've noticed that sometimes "digitalio.DigitalIO" issues an error and "digitalio.DigitalInOut" is expected instead. Does anyone have a suggestion as to why that happens?

ornate pagoda
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We do discourage cross posting, so keep that in mind in general, but this is ok because I'm suggesting it. ๐Ÿ™‚

ornate pagoda
shell shore
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Thanks for the direction.
From the example code I'm using, the code snippet below shows a DigitalIO.DigitalIO class in the "digitalio" imported from adafruit_seesaw. This executes with no errors.

from adafruit_seesaw import seesaw, digitalio

Turn on I2C power pin

i2c_power = digitalio.DigitalIO(board.TFT_I2C_POWER, 0x36)

ornate pagoda
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Oh inside seesaw. Ok, apologies.

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I assumed basic CircuitPython digitalio which doesn't have that.

shell shore
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Thanks. By researching this based on your take, I think I solved my own issue ๐Ÿ˜‰

ornate pagoda
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Hey, bonus!

ornate pagoda
shell shore
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OK, sure. My first time posting and since I had a "digitalio" issue, I posted to help-with-adafruit-io. Now I know. Thanks.

ornate pagoda
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Adafruit IO is a web service Adafruit provides. Separate concept.

pastel harness
next pebble
storm turtle
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Hey Iโ€™ve bought a raspberry pi and it got voided? Why is that? Am I doing something wrong on the website?

restive vine
pastel harness
mellow birch
pastel harness
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Hello thanks for the suggestion, I was actually intending to use a microbit connected to an esp01 and writing custom blocks to send AT commands over serial to write and read channels

mellow birch
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Oh I see. Yeah tbh I'm not very well versed with all that. Good luck tho!

subtle obsidian
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Just got my first wiresnapper device setup with adafruitio. It's a MagTag 2.9". I have the adafruit htu31d on I2C but don't see it in the component list. Am I missing something or are there only a few I2C sensors on adafruit io?

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oh it's connected via stemmaqt if that matters?

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i can see I2C addresses for pins D10 and A1 for 3 pin jst but nothing showing up for stemmaqt pin

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hmm looks like i should be reading up on feeds and dashboard instead. seems like wiresnapper still in its infancy, has amazing potential though.

subtle obsidian
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well now i'm having a really hard time trying to remove wipper and get my circuitpy usb back. no matter what i do i can't get rid of wippersnapper. i've removed the device from adafruit io, changed the credentials, it won't connect through chrome. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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error in esp web flasher

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Connecting...
Connected successfully.
Try hard reset.
[Object.debug:187] Finished read loop
Error: Couldn't sync to ESP. Try resetting.```
subtle obsidian
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ok after 2 hours i finally got it figured out. it was locked to COM6 and wouldn't let go, like a pitbull. holding down reset and catching it just at the right time so it would release and go to another COM port. attempted it about 50 times and eventually like magic it just worked once.

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had to use python esptool to get it done, kind of a nightmare. easy to install wippersnapper but it's seriously hard to remove it.

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esptool.py v4.1
Found 2 serial ports
Serial port COM6
Connecting........................
COM6 failed to connect: Write timeout
Serial port COM1
Connecting......................................
COM1 failed to connect: Failed to connect to ESP32-S2: No serial data received.
For troubleshooting steps visit: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esptool/en/latest/troubleshooting.html```
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that was a typical failure where it refused to let go of the com port.

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esptool.py v4.1
Found 2 serial ports
Serial port COM5
Connecting...
Chip is ESP32-S2
Features: WiFi, No Embedded Flash, No Embedded PSRAM, ADC and temperature sensor calibration in BLK2 of efuse V1
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: 7c:df:a1:16:ca:f4
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Erasing flash (this may take a while)...
Chip erase completed successfully in 18.8s
WARNING: ESP32-S2 chip was placed into download mode using GPIO0.
esptool.py can not exit the download mode over USB. To run the app, reset the chip manually.
To suppress this note, set --after option to 'no_reset'.```
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successful flash erase after 2 hours of trying. downloaded the bin to /downloads and ran esptool flash from there

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esptool.py v4.1
Serial port COM5
Connecting....
Detecting chip type... Unsupported detection protocol, switching and trying again...
Detecting chip type... ESP32-S2
Chip is ESP32-S2
Features: WiFi, No Embedded Flash, No Embedded PSRAM, ADC and temperature sensor calibration in BLK2 of efuse V1
Crystal is 40MHz
MAC: 7c:df:a1:16:ca:f4
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Configuring flash size...
Flash will be erased from 0x00000000 to 0x00167fff...
Compressed 1471376 bytes to 958056...
Wrote 1471376 bytes (958056 compressed) at 0x00000000 in 31.5 seconds (effective 374.0 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.```
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i feel like for wippersnapper trying to make life easier... trying to remove it was far harder than it should have been.

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have CIRCUITPY back on USB with code.py again and all is right with the world

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it was like a weird race condition where esptool had to fight wippersnapper to get first dibs on the com port, and wippersnapper won like 20:1 over the span of 2 hours. i came pretty close to opening up a support post and/bug report.

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you'll definitely see this one again the more people get interested in wippersnapper

mellow birch
warped lance
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Does anyone have experience connecting helium network devices to adafruit.io? I run most of my home monitoring just fine directly into adafruit.io but I'm trying to get a helium device connected. the helium console gives me a success message on the integration but nothing is really posting. a link to a good article might be enough. my google skills are lacking on this one

viscid iris
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Hello! I bought Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 and was wondering how I can program it so the rotary knob controls volume? Thanks!

subtle obsidian
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@viscid iris post that question in the circuit python topic. AdafruitIO topic is for online datalogging.

royal rapids
# subtle obsidian Just got my first wiresnapper device setup with adafruitio. It's a MagTag 2.9". ...

Hi - only the sensors listed on Adafruit IO are currently supported by WipperSnapper. The htu31d is not yet supported (no ETA as we're working on core functionality right now but will wrap around by end of summer), but, we do have a guide (located here: https://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-add-a-new-component-to-adafruit-io-wippersnapper) for adding a new component and accept PRs if you'd like to hack this sensor into WipperSnapper.

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WipperSnapper is still in beta. thank you though

royal rapids
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warped lance
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Both are pretty active.

subtle obsidian
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@royal rapids bug report submitted.

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During the process I kept wishing there was a file I could edit to bypass/override it. After reading my own submission I'm guessing that attempting to load UF2 first was a mistake.

royal rapids
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@subtle obsidian what do you mean by file you could bypass?

subtle obsidian
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Just some way to bypass it locking onto a com port then I realized that was a stupid idea because it needs the com port to communicate in the first place. :/

robust panther
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It's possible I accidentally enabled safe mode somehow which is what ultimately allowed the ESPTool to connect first. With WipperSnapper in particular due to its fast and automatic loading the learn guide for it should have very specific instructions on how to enable safe mode if you ever desire to remove it. It's honestly going to be the only way for people to remove WipperSnapper as all other methods failed for me. I haven't tried it but I believe Uwe Siebers Device Cleanup Tool would have also failed in that condition. While Device Cleanup Tool can reset or move the COM port, in my experience WipperSnapper will just find it and connect again before you'd have a chance to use ESPTool or WebFlasher again.

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The thing about safe mode is it's dependent on the user getting the correct button press timing which is a frustration inducing nuanced procedure to rely on.

boreal wolf
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well I realized it was just going over the code in the script, but when I run the script it fails with this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/adafruit_bus_device/i2c_device.py", line 174, in __probe_for_device
    self.i2c.writeto(self.device_address, b"")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/busio.py", line 169, in writeto
    return self._i2c.writeto(address, buffer, stop=stop)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/generic_linux/i2c.py", line 52, in writeto
    self._i2c_bus.write_bytes(address, buffer[start:end])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/Adafruit_PureIO/smbus.py", line 314, in write_bytes
    self._device.write(buf)
OSError: [Errno 121] Remote I/O error```
neat charm
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That's an error in the I2C connection, so you might need to double-check the wiring there.

boreal wolf
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It appears to be firmly mounted from the factory and I don't see any issues. I guess I could power down and try reconnecting it.

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That display was pushed onto the header pins tight. I removed and re-seated and have the same results. I suppose i received a faulty unit.

boreal wolf
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The clear cover for the kit they sent didn't fit either and was designed to be used when no display is present. Looks like bad QC all around. :/

boreal wolf
robust panther
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#help-with-linux-sbcs would also be a place to ask - maybe re-summarize. But if you think there's a hw problem, then the forums are best, because that's the official support mechanism

boreal wolf
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@robust panther Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. Will give it a shot.

subtle obsidian
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I'm currently using demo code with adafruit_esp32spi_wifimanager to connect and post a value to adafruitio. If I intend to send and receive should I be using MQTT instead?

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ah nvm, because i'm using airlift there's a different helper library

versed pelican
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Hey does anybody know any Documentation for the DRV2605 Haptic motor controller? Currently I am looking through everything and I havent found anything about a Documentation, except Adafruits but its just written โ€œUse this Example Sketchโ€ and thats it

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Or atleast know how it works cause the drv commands are very confusing

subtle obsidian
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weird link throttling, discord says i'm posting links too fast. ๐Ÿ™‚

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Can anyone help me figure out how to break out a value from an io get request? I'm unsure how to do it.

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yeah now it told me to stop spamming... i understand the need but when it affects regular users it's too tight.

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ok i guess i'm just not getting any help today. it won't let me post my code quote, says i'm spamming.

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it's now 10am so over the course of 10 minutes it wouldn't let me post a code quote

versed pelican
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rip

mellow birch
subtle obsidian
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don't think i'm using mqtt, i'm using adafruit_esp32spi helper library. tried using mqtt but it wasn't working right so i gave up and went back to esp32spi :/

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i posted on the forums in adafruitio because it won't let me post code quotes here

robust panther
subtle obsidian
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my first day plotting temperature of my workshop. adafruitio is super cool.

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royal rapids
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nice!

cold wedge
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I'm having trouble getting two micros communicating with AdafruitIO. One is connecting and one(the newer one) is failing to connect (dots forever) I had one connecting with the adafruitIO arduino sketch and the other with mqtt but am trying to use the adafruitIO_00_publish template. No idea what I'm doing wrong and could use some direction to look. Thanks.

subtle obsidian
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post your code and use three backticks ` before and after, for code quoting in discord.

wide bronze
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Quick question(s) from someone looking to start using Adafruit IO but I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve got the right hardware for it. Does anyone know how up to date the compatible hardware in the welcome to Adafruit IO guide is (https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-adafruit-io/compatible-hardware)? Iโ€™m trying to understand if the hardware I have would work to connect to Adafruit IO, using the QT Py ESP32-C3 WiDi Dev Board (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5405). My current thought is no, but Iโ€™d love input if not. Follow up question(s) is then, what hardware would work? I know the classic Adafruit HUZZAH32 - ESP32 Feather Board (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3405) and Adafruit Feather HUZZAH with ESP8266 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2821) should both work with Adafruit IO. But what about the Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico WiFi dev board (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5395) or the Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 - 8MB Flash+2MB PSRAM (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5400)? Disregarding availability, would those board work with Adafruit IO? Like I said, Iโ€™m new to this and would love some input before I purchase parts that wonโ€™t talk with Adafruit IO. (Edits for link and text clarification)

Adafruit HUZZAH32 โ€“ ESP32 Feather Board

Aww yeah, it's the Feather you have been waiting for! The HUZZAH32 is our ESP32-based Feather, made with the official WROOM32 module. We packed everything you love about Feathers: built ...

Adafruit Feather HUZZAH with ESP8266 - Loose Headers

Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake, it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller ...

Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico - WiFi Dev Board with STEMMA QT

This dev board is like when you're watching a super-hero movie and the protagonist shows up in a totally amazing costume in the third act and you're like 'OMG! That's the ...

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If this stuff is better asked somewhere else or anyone has other resources I should look at, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for the help!!

royal rapids
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@wide bronze Are you using Arduino, CircuitPython or WipperSnapper to communicate with Adafruit IO? All of the options above are able to communicate with Adafruit IO.

wide bronze
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Strong preference to Arduino, itโ€™s what Iโ€™m most familiar with. Used circuitpython before and liked it but still prefer Arduino. Curious about trying WipperSnapper at some point

royal rapids
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All of the boards you listed above will work with Arduino and the Adafruit IO Arduino library

wide bronze
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Awesome thank you! Iโ€™d test out the ESP32-C3 that I own right now, I just donโ€™t have the hardware on me

royal rapids
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Def. try Adafruit IO Arduino for that board.

wide bronze
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Definitely will check out WipperSnapper on some hardware that is compatible, I really like the idea

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Thanks again for the input!

royal rapids
wide bronze
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Definitely will do. I just posted on here first cause I thought it was a pretty high level question

royal rapids
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subtle obsidian
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@royal rapids Can you add part of the example for retrieving a single value to the airlift featherwing learn guide. I'm sure that'll help get airlift users onto IO more easily.

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Most of the examples for adafruitIO on other boards have a way to easily retrieve a single value but the airlift doesn't. I had to jump through hoops to figure out how to do it.

subtle obsidian
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i'm super happy I can do some cool stuff in adafruitio now. happy, happy, dance.

royal rapids
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@subtle obsidian I can, but do not currently have time to do that.

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btw

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subtle obsidian
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๐Ÿ‘

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The c3 confuses me. Itโ€™s got i2s but no dac. ๐Ÿ˜ข no native usb and doesnโ€™t show up as a drive but can still run circuit python? Itโ€™s a good candidate to enhance its features with wippersnapper tho.

shell star
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@subtle obsidian The C3 was planned to have the CP BLE workflow but it hit a snag. I'm actively working on a web workflow that should work well on the C3

subtle obsidian
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Ahh web flow could make the legacy espโ€™s easier to work with too. Very cool.

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@shell star will web flow have drag and drop capability someday for file transfers? Maybe even for legacy espโ€™s? That would be awesome.

shell star
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not drag and drop through a file explorer. I do have it serve a webpage you can upload from

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and yes, we've started working on ESP32 support to go with it

subtle obsidian
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Yep thatโ€™s what I meant. Web flow is going to be awesome.

odd patrol
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Whatโ€™s the best way to clear all data from a feed? Iโ€™ve tried to delete the feed, but my device doesnโ€™t seem to create it again (it is created the first time by the device, after I change the name in the Arduino sketch). Iโ€™ve tried to create same feed name manually, and device doesnโ€™t seem to add data to it.

mellow birch
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Also are you trying to reset the feed in the middle of the code running or are you deleting the feed, and then starting the code over again

odd patrol
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Iโ€™m collecting a bunch of readings, then restarting and collecting others. I like that I can view the graph on a feed with new data only and it โ€œmakes senseโ€

pastel harness
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hello, does anyone knows how to make io.run() faster on ESP32, currently that command takes ~500ms to complete

quartz obsidian
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Hi guys,i would like to ask you about Adafruit PN532.I want to create a project,in which i want to send NDEF message with my android phone via NFC tools directly to the reader,can i achieve this with Adafruit PN532?

Thanks in advance!

royal rapids
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Changelog - updated design for IO & more!

feral sundial
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WipperSnapper Firmware Installer and Des...

subtle obsidian
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@royal rapids i'm not doing anything with my esp32 v2. hooked it back up to wipper snapper. i'd like to have the bmp390 added so i can log some environment data. i'm available any time if you need a beta tester for simple things.

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it's much easier to install wippersnapper now vs 2 weeks ago. though i had to use chrome to do it. will there ever be firefox compatibility?

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shell star
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Kattni's been on a learn guide binge with new or updated guides for the ESP32-V2, ESP32-S2, and ESP32-S2 feather all released in one day. WipperSnapper starting to make a splash in learn guides now. WipperSnapper needs a method of uninstalling from AdafruitIO and setting a board back to default. Right now if you install WipperSnapper it appears as if there's no way out from AdafruitIO.

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Hmm, I will send Mozilla an email then.

shell star
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I think there is a bug for it

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its just a pile on iirc

thorn hatch
subtle obsidian
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yeah it was easier said than done for me. i had to do it in python.

thorn hatch
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huh

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I double pressed reset/boot, dragged and dropped, and that was it I think

subtle obsidian
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yeah that didn't happen for me

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took me 2 hours

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though, i am not a smart man. so take my inability to press a couple buttons in sequence with a grain of salt.

errant quartz
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Is Ther any one how knows how to turn of the purple indicator light?

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It indicates a "Value Error"

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I use a ItsyBitsy M0 Express

charred pendant
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@errant quartz Are you using CircuitPython? It might be better to ask in #help-with-circuitpython - this channel is dedicated to Adafruit IO, their IoT service

fleet peak
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Guys how do i connect the USB Micro-B Breakout Board with the adafruit trinket ?

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radiant arch
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Hi Adafruit.io friends!

Is there any documentation available for the "image converter service" used by the adafruit_pyportal.network module?

# you'll need to pass in an io username, width, height, format (bit depth), io key, and then url!
IMAGE_CONVERTER_SERVICE = (
    "https://io.adafruit.com/api/v2/%s/integrations/image-formatter?"
    "x-aio-key=%s&width=%d&height=%d&output=BMP%d&url=%s"
)```

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_PyPortal/blob/de0b0082e3bca027aeab391d9d96bcb74068b7dd/adafruit_pyportal/network.py#L43

The only place I've seen this endpoint used so far is in the "PyPortal NASA Image of the Day" learn guide:

https://learn.adafruit.com/pyportal-nasa-image-of-the-day-viewer/install-circuitpython

For broader conext, I'm making a PyPortal based dashboard in CircuitPython and trying to work with small JPG/PNG images from a REST API, which is kinda complicated. So this image converter endpoint may be just what I need, at least for my prototype. But I can't find any documentation on it, assuming it even still exists.

I spent a lot of time with the API doc but haven't found anything yet, aside from some references to various dashboarding stuff relating to images, which doesn't look related.
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charred pendant
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@radiant arch I spent a lot of time messing with the PyPortal and the image converter service hacking on JP's code on that NASA project. In the end, I put a JSON endpoint on a webserver, and I was able to use the image service by passing different JSON

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Thatโ€™s the rabbit hole I was about to dive into, which I may some day, but for my current project itโ€™s probably not the droid Iโ€™m looking for. For this use case Iโ€™m trying to take a PNG gcode thumbnail from a local Octoprint server and get a fixed-palette 159x90 BMP back. The mock-up just looks so cool with it that Iโ€™m probably gonna spend as much time on the thumbnail image as I have on the whole project so far.

Was hoping for a shortcut (at least for prototyping) but I guess Iโ€™m writing an Octoprint plugin now. ๐Ÿ˜…

Hereโ€™s what the thing looks like so far.

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radiant arch
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Might be fun to write an Octoprint plugin to talk to adafruit.io though, and use that as an intermediary broker... Been looking for an excuse to dive into aio for awhile

radiant arch
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with an aio dashboard maybe I could just generate the image on the aio side or something. Might end up doing that in an Octoprint plugin -just generate a 320x220 (minus tab bar) all in one dashboard image. But its so much more fun to have the CircuitPython generate it all

royal rapids
radiant arch
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thanks!

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charred pendant
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I use Klipper and now you have me wondering if I could do something similar with Moonraker. Like I need another project. ๐Ÿ˜‰

honest crypt
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Does anybody know if the Feather ESP32-S2 TFT (part 5300) charges the battery connected or if I need to connect it to a dedicated charging board?

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subtle obsidian
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ohh i could use bitmapsaver to screenshot my weatherstation tft and just send that? ๐Ÿ˜›

split ocean
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Hi, all. Using PlatformIO to build AIO things... All worked just fine until a few days ago. Now none of my projects that use AIO/Arduino under PIO will compile. Projects not using the 'adafruit io arduino' library compile just fine. I'm now getting the 'problems' illustrated in the screenshot attached. ProjectsAny ideas? I've come here first because of better help for beginners (which I am), but I suspect this may need to go to the PIO folks. Thanks.

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slate rose
charred pendant
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I just wonder if that does the 'indexing' for the bitmap

slate rose
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Oh it does thanks

charred pendant
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Todbot is pretty active in Discord if you have any questions on image conversion

slate rose
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The image converter service is completely broken for me now

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i get this regardless of the input

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{"error":"request failed - failed to load and process image"}

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compact flume
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Hello, i just bought a macropad and the spacer behind the lcd has no thread. Obviously being unable to put the last screw it is unstable now, so i was wondering if anyone knew where to source the same spacer.

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compact flume
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will do, thank you.

fervent socket
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I'd post this in general xor help with projects. This channel is for AdafruitIO, the IoT service adafruit hosts/develops

steep quarry
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Does the value property of a DigitalInOut object refer to it's ground status?
Like
switch = DigitalInOut(board.D2)
switch.value

fervent socket
subtle obsidian
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@royal rapids updated esp32-v2 from beta 38 to 40 using only adafruit.github.io, worked flawlessly. forked wippersnapper_components, will attempt to make some contributions.

subtle obsidian
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is there a fusion 360 tutorial for going from an adafruit .brd file to 3D with all components? when i try to create a 3D brd file it's missing all the components.

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think i found one that'll work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygVegKuBdw recommend adding that to the wippersnapper_component contribution learn guide.

YouTube
Adafruit Industries
Fusion 360 โ€“ Using Package Generator for PCBs #adafruit

In this video weโ€™re taking a look at the 3D package generator. Weโ€™ll walk through the process of exporting a pcb from eagle to fusion 360 and map 3d models to it. Weโ€™ll also generator an IC and bring it into the pcb.

Adafruit PCF8591 Breakout
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pcf8591-adc-dac

3D Parts on GitHub
https://github.com/adafruit/Ad...

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yeah there's a LOT that has to be done in fusion 360 before you can animate it loaded up with components.

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this video should be placed prior to the how to animate the pcb video.

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subtle obsidian
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yup i have a static transparent png in there and the json. just have to work on the arduino and cp code. working on the bmp390.

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unless there's a list of stuff currently being worked on? i don't want to duplicate someone else work in progress.

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also learned the free edition of fusion 360 does not have add-in capability and therefore no option for 3d generator package. there's no way i can do the 3d animation, will leave that up to someone else.

thorn hatch
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Am I right to assume there's no way to make a gauge that's smaller than it'll let me compact it down to when editing the layout?

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I can use the text thing instead which lets me display the same value in less space, but it gets rid of all the handy options from gauges like min/max and being able to show text after the values themselves.

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Also, I was today years old when I realised that dashboards have 3 view sizes you can edit independently..

royal rapids
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I don't think the bmp390 was being worked on

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subtle obsidian
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at first i didn't understand all the hoops for wipper_snapper arduino then i got to the part where the sketch compiled all the drivers and the lightbulb turned on in my head. thanks for making an easy way to develop this stuff. i haven't touched arduino in years, that definitely made it easier.

royal rapids
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np! All the drivers get compiled, with WS Arduino itself, at compile-time

civic heath
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Did something change on adafruit io in the last few days? I have a long-running project that just started failing: ```Traceback (most recent call last):
File "code.py", line 1, in <module>
File "code_romansolar.py", line 17, in <module>
File "code_romansolar.py", line 16, in <module>
File "adafruit_portalbase/network.py", line 231, in get_local_time
File "adafruit_portalbase/network.py", line 214, in get_strftime
File "adafruit_portalbase/network.py", line 207, in get_strftime
RuntimeError: Error connecting to Adafruit IO. The response was: {"error":"not found - API documentation can be found at https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs"}

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same failure with updated libs (per circup)

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OK the problem was actually with my IO credentials, so that's an unfortunate error message. It's working again now.