Mircea Murar

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10 years, 2 months ago.

mbed controlled by Xively?

Dear users,

I'm pretty new to this field and I might have some background goals, therefore, I beg for mercy :P. I'm running on an NXP LPC1768 and the mbed application board.

I'm looking forward deploying some kind of cloud based application for controlling an mbed device, which in turn shall control a motor based on information gathered from sensors, or even simple, a LED.

Uploading data to Xively platform is pretty straightforward, therefore I managed to load data from sensors and observe it to Xively platform, but I did not found any information or tutorial of how to manage information gathered in the cloud so it could trigger the start and stop commands of a motor or a LED.

I watch almost any video and presentation about Xively cloud concept and from what I understood it is possible to manage information and control devices but how? Did anybody succeeded?

Would Axeda be a better solution?

Thanks, Mircea.

1 Answer

Donal Morrissey
10 years, 2 months ago.

Hi Mircea,

According to the Xively website:

Quote:

Using the Xively Developer Workbench, you can get prototypes up and running quickly and easily.

Customizable device workspaces give you the power to configure and control channels, meta-data, fine-grain permissions, conditional triggers, time-series data archiving and interconnection with other devices, apps and services.

Having done a bit of reading on the web, it sounds like you can use the Xively Developer Workbench to setup Triggers to send commands.

Please share how you get on with this.

Donal