Basic questions about Cayenne with esp8266

[shramik_salgaonkar]

@1miltfriedman

I can’t find documentation on the Cayenne Write functions so I’m not sure whats possible.

Data types for Cayenne MQTT API

In light of some questions about how to pass data to Cayenne via MQTT, and knowing that the table in our documentation is incorrect/showing not-yet-released items, I wanted to share the following table to help with building virtualWrite() statements to pass data to Cayenne. virtualWrite() expects a parameter format like: virtualWrite(mqtt_channel_number, value, "type value", "unit value") You may have noticed that we have shorter functions like luxWrite() that only need two parameters becau…

@1miltfriedman

I don’t know what the best way is to collect data from multiple devices (around my yard).

create a separate project on the cayenne dashboard by click on “+”. add the widgets from all the different devices to this dashboard.

@1miltfriedman

I don’t know the best practice for saving battery power with the dev board.

you can try this Battery Powered ESP8266 Temperature/Humidity Monitor with DHT11