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Pachube

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  1. Introduction
  2. Getting started

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Introduction

Pachube is a platform which captures data over the internet in realtime and provides graphing, alerts and historical data access. It is ideally suited for visualising data from sensors connected to the mbed.

Pachube is based on the concept of feeds and datastreams. A feed is typically a single location (eg. a house) and datastreams are individual sensors associated with that location (eg. temperatures, power consumption).

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Pachube provides two modes for data capture; a pull method (automatic feed type) where data is collected from an http server, and a push method (manual feed type) where data is written to Pachube using an http client. In addition, there are a number of formats for interacting with Pachube including xml, json and csv. The full API is described here.

This wiki page describes the manual method using the http client to upload csv formatted data to Pachube.

Getting started

Information

In order to use Pachube, an account should be created and it will be necessary to copy into the code below the API key from the my settings page. /media/uploads/mbed714/_scaled_pachubeapikeyexample.png

Restrictions

Use of the Pachube API is rate limited; see here for details.

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